Mike Walsh
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The boat was to BIG for the capt. /owner to handle . The U.S.coast guard should pull his licence & never renew it !!!!!!
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From what the posts have said so far, the boat was backing towards her - nothing about she was swimming towards the boat.If I recall, almost every drift dive brief on charter boats I've been on have included "do not swim to boat unless instructed to".
Many don't listen to this part of brief.
It appears that there is a lawsuit pending. Geico has filed a declaratory judgement.<<>>
I think that on my last deployment they took those away from us and gave us some "better" ones. I would do some research before buying a tourniquet. I can't say that I'm 100% sure these are the ones they collected but just check it out.Cat 4 tactical tourniquet, $25 on amazon, but you need to learn to use it. I teach it's use in my first aid class. We had them on Spree, but then, we had a lot of stuff on a liveaboard that you wouldn't have room for on a dayboat. Although I have one in my commercial diving first air kit, so there is that. All soldiers get one and are trained in it's use.
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I think that on my last deployment they took those away from us and gave us some "better" ones. I would do some research before buying a tourniquet. I can't say that I'm 100% sure these are the ones they collected but just check it out.
I chartered his old boat once for a couple of days- I can only imagine if there was an incident- they could have come after me. And I've got assets.
From what I understand, the Florida homestead exemption pertains to property taxes.
If he's being sued personally how will bankruptcy protect his personal assets?
I still can't get over the greed and dishonesty that he showed by intentionally insuring the boat as "for pleasure" while putting everyone ELSE at potentially high liability -especially those who pay thousands to charter his boat like I did - just to keep his own premiums low. In a way that's worse than accidentally backing over a diver (if that's what happened).