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Jul 15, 2026

Crew-Boat Capsize & Maritime Wrongful Death: Four Seafarers Killed, Five Missing After Service Vessel Cara Capsized Alongside the Tanker Sea Quest at the Beira Anchorage Off Mozambique — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to International Maritime Death Claims, We Pursue the Vessel Managers, the Marshall Islands Single-Ship Entities and the P&I Club Behind the Crew-Transfer Failure, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Offshore Deaths, We Secure the Voyage Data Recorder, Crew-Transfer Risk Assessments and Weather Records Before the Overwrite, General Maritime Law Unseaworthiness and Jones Act Negligence Where US Nexus Applies, ISM Code Safety-Management Compliance and SOLAS Transfer Standards, Loss of Support and Society Damages Under Maritime Wrongful Death Doctrine, the Firm Has Recovered $2M+ in a Maritime Settlement and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Beira Anchorage Crew Boat Capsize: What the Families of Four Dead and Five Missing Seafarers Must Know Right Now You are reading this at a hour when nobody should have to read anything. A crew boat called the Cara was carrying your loved one — a seafarer, a contractor, a crew member — to a 50,000-deadweight-ton tanker anchored off Beira, Mozambique, and the Cara capsized alongside that vessel. Four people are confirmed dead. Five are still missing in the waters of the Mozambique Channel. The tanker, the Sea Quest, is managed by Scorpio Marine Management, flagged in the Marshall Islands, insured through the West of England P&I Club, and was formerly owned by Scorpio Tankers Inc., a company traded on the New York Stock Exchange. We are the trial attorneys at Attorney911, and this page is written for one person: you, the family member who just learned that someone you love is gone or is not yet found, and who needs to know — right now, before anyone from the insurance company calls — what rights the maritime law gives you and what is about to happen to the evidence. The first thing you need to hear is this: maritime law is different from every other kind of injury law on earth, and it is different in ways that can either protect your family powerfully or quietly destroy your claim, depending on how fast you act and who you listen to. A crew boat capsizing alongside a tanker at an…

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Jul 15, 2026

Maritime Accident & Vessel Sinking Near Perkins Cove Off Ogunquit, Maine — Attorney911 Litigates Towing Negligence Under General Maritime Law When the 25-Foot Tug Georgie Sank Under Tow With 400 Gallons of Diesel in Coastal Waters, We Pursue the Towing Vessel Operator and the Vessel Owner Behind the Loss, We Secure the USCG Investigation File, NOAA Incident Report and Forensic Hull Survey Before Corrosion Erases the Evidence After Months Submerged, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, Maritime Injury ($2M+ Recovered) to Wrongful Death, Maine’s Comparative-Fault Doctrine and the Savings-to-Suitors Clause That Preserves Your State-Court Remedies, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Tugboat Sinking Off Ogunquit: What Maritime Law Says About Liability, Oil Spills, and Your Rights You are reading this because a vessel went down off the southern Maine coast, and you want to know what the law actually says about who is responsible, what the environmental exposure means, and what rights a maritime worker or coastal property owner has when something like this happens. Maybe you crew a tug or a workboat out of Perkins Cove. Maybe you run a charter operation and your season was affected by a sheen on the water. Maybe you are a family member of someone who was aboard the towing vessel and you heard about the sinking secondhand and you are worried about what comes next. We are writing this page for you — to give you the law, the evidence clocks, the honest case-value assessment, and the playbook the other side is already running, so you can make decisions with your eyes open. Here is what happened, in plain terms: On December 8, 2024, a 25-foot tugboat called the Georgie sank near Perkins Cove, just off the shore of Ogunquit, Maine. The tug was under tow — meaning another vessel was pulling it — and it was uncrewed. Nobody was aboard the Georgie when it went down. The vessel had an estimated 400 gallons of diesel fuel on board, according to a NOAA incident report. Nearly a year later, salvage crews refloated the vessel using inflatable lift bags. No injuries or fatalities have…

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Jul 15, 2026

Offshore Oil-Platform Explosion Scare & Maritime Injury Attorneys: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Maritime-JonesAct-National, We Pursue the Offshore Operators and Their Contractor Stacks Behind Process-Safety Failures and Gas-Detection Breakdowns, We Move to Secure Platform Sensor Data, Gas-Detection Logs and Maintenance Records Before They Vanish, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Self-Insured Oil-Company Claims Machine Values and Denies Jones Act Claims, $2M+ Maritime Back-Injury Settlement and $50M+ Total Recovered, the Slight-Negligence Standard and Unseaworthiness Doctrine Under the Jones Act and General Maritime Law — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Shell Was Fined £560,000 for a North Sea Explosion Scare — Here Is What It Means for Every Offshore Worker Shell was fined £560,000 — roughly $710,000 — after an explosion scare on a North Sea oil platform. If you work offshore, that headline should land two ways at once. First: an “explosion scare” means the conditions for a catastrophe were already present. A gas release. A loss of containment. A failure of the safety systems that are supposed to keep flammable hydrocarbons from finding a spark. The only thing that separates an “explosion scare” from an explosion is luck — and luck is not a safety system. When regulators fine a company for letting conditions deteriorate that far, they are telling you the danger was real, documented, and preventable. Second: that fine is not your compensation. The regulator’s penalty punishes the company. It pays nothing to the worker who was on that platform when the alarms went off, who breathed the gas that leaked, who ran to the muster station not knowing whether he was walking into fire or away from it. The fine is a number the company writes off as a cost of doing business. Your injury — your burns, your blast-traumatic brain injury, your PTSD, your lost wages, your family’s terror — is a different number entirely, and federal maritime law gives you a separate door to reach it. That door is more powerful than most offshore workers are ever told. But the company is already…

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Jul 15, 2026

Six Crew Dead or Missing After Salmon Farming Support Vessel Koñimo 1 Sinks at Anchor in Calm Water — Attorney911 Maritime Wrongful Death Attorneys Bring Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Maritime-JonesAct-National Unseaworthiness Claims, We Pursue the Vessel Owner and the Aquaculture Charterer When a Catamaran Should Not Sink in Calm Weather While Its Crew Sleeps, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Offshore Death Cases, We Preserve the Hull Forensics, Voyage Data Recorder and Survivor Testimony Before Saltwater and Time Destroy Them, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When a Workboat Sinks at Anchor in Calm Water — Maritime Wrongful Death Claims for Crew Lost in Aquaculture Vessel Disasters A vessel that sinks at anchor, in calm weather, while its crew sleeps aboard — that is not an accident. That is a question. The question is what was wrong with the boat, who knew it, and who is responsible for putting eight men to sleep inside a hull that could not stay afloat. If you are reading this page because someone you love was aboard a vessel that went down — whether the Koñimo 1 in Chile’s Reloncaví Estuary or a crew boat in the Gulf, a supply vessel off the coast, or an aquaculture workboat anywhere — you are in the right place. We are Attorney911, The Manginello Law Firm. We handle maritime wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases. This page exists to tell you what the law actually says, what the companies are already doing, and what your family must do in the days that matter most — before the evidence and the witnesses are gone. The facts of this specific sinking are public: a catamaran-type salmon farming support vessel, the Koñimo 1, sank at approximately 4:00 AM on a Monday while anchored 70 meters from shore in the Reloncaví Estuary near Cochamó, in Chile’s Los Lagos region. The crew of eight had finished infrastructure maintenance work for Salmones Austral and was resting inside the vessel. Two crew members survived by swimming to shore. Three bodies…

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Jul 15, 2026

Sound of Kerrera Work Boat Sinking Near Oban, Maritime Seaworthiness & Vessel-Owner Liability Attorneys, Attorney911 with Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue the Vessel Owners and Mooring Operators Behind Unseaworthy Hulls That Sink at Their Berths, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Maritime Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Secure the Hull Survey, Maintenance Records, Mooring Tackle and EPIRB Data Before Saltwater Immersion and Salvage Degrade the Evidence, General Maritime Law Seaworthiness Doctrine, $2M+ Maritime Recovery, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims, Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Oban, Argyll and Bute County: Work Boat Sinks at Mooring — UK Maritime Law vs. US Admiralty Jurisdiction Explained If you found this page, you are probably holding two questions at once. The first is about what happened in the Sound of Kerrera on the morning of March 3, 2026 — a work boat, described by HM Coastguard as a tug boat, sank at its mooring off Oban while no one was on board. The second question is the one that actually keeps you up: what law protects me, or someone I love, when something goes wrong on the water? That second question is the reason this page exists. We are going to answer both, honestly and completely, because the difference between a maritime incident that falls under United Kingdom law and one that falls under United States admiralty jurisdiction is the single most important fact in any case on the water — and it is the fact most people never learn until it is too late. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that handles catastrophic-injury and wrongful-death cases, including offshore and maritime injury claims under United States federal maritime law. This page is legal information, not legal advice. Contacting us is free and confidential. And what we are going to tell you up front is the thing most law firms will not: the sinking near Oban is not a United States personal injury case. It happened in Scottish waters. No one…

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Jul 15, 2026

Offshore Platform Fire & Workplace Injury Attorneys, 10 Workers Injured When Fire Erupted on the ONGC Mumbai High SHP Platform in the Arabian Sea, Attorney911 with Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue the Platform Operators and Contractor Stacks Behind Offshore Rig Fires, We Secure the Fire-Detection Logs, Gas-Sensor Data and Platform CCTV Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Offshore Injury Cases, Maritime Burn, Smoke-Inhalation and Evacuation Injuries, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ Total Including $2M+ in a Maritime Back-Injury Settlement, the Jones Act and General Maritime Law Protect Offshore Workers, Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Mumbai Offshore Platform Fire: What It Means for Offshore Workers Under US Maritime Law You are reading this because a fire tore through an offshore oil platform and ten people were hurt. Maybe you work on a rig yourself, and the news out of the Arabian Sea made you think about what would happen to you and your family if the same thing happened on your platform. Maybe someone you love was injured in a platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico, and you are sitting in a hospital hallway at 2 a.m. trying to understand what rights they have. We are glad you found this page, and we are going to tell you everything we know. First, the honest truth about this specific incident. The fire at the SHP Platform in the Mumbai High field occurred in Indian territorial waters, on a platform owned and operated by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, an Indian state-owned enterprise. Every claim arising from that fire is governed by Indian maritime law, Indian offshore petroleum regulations, and Indian labor and tort law. No United States court has jurisdiction over that incident. No American statute—the Jones Act, the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, general maritime law of the United States—applies to it. If the injured workers or their families contacted an American law firm, the correct and honest answer would be that Indian maritime counsel is the right resource, not a US plaintiff firm. We would say so directly and help point them in…

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Jul 15, 2026

Offshore Platform Fire & Maritime Injury Attorneys — 10 Workers Injured in the ONGC SHP Platform Fire on the Mumbai High Oil Field 160 km Offshore India, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Offshore Fire Cases, We Pursue the Platform Operators and Contractors Behind Fire-Detection Failures, Gas-Leak Ignition and Emergency Shutdown System Lapses, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Offshore Cases, We Secure the Fire-Detection Logs, ESD Activation Records and Platform CCTV Footage Before the 30-Day Overwrite, Jones Act, Unseaworthiness and Maintenance-and-Cure Remedies That Exceed State Workers’ Compensation, the Firm Has Recovered $2M+ in a Maritime Injury Case — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

What an Offshore Platform Fire Means for a Maritime Worker — and Why the Law That Protects You Depends on Where the Fire Happened If you are reading this because you were hurt in a platform fire — or because someone you love was — you are probably sitting in a hospital room or a kitchen at two in the morning, trying to understand what rights you actually have. The phone has not rung yet from a lawyer. Maybe it has rung from your employer’s claims department, and the voice on the other end sounded friendly. We need to tell you what that voice means, what your rights really are, and why the answer depends entirely on one question: whose waters were you standing in when the fire started. Ten workers were injured in a fire on ONGC’s SHP offshore platform, a production installation on the Mumbai High oil field roughly 160 kilometers off the coast of India. The fire broke out around 5:45 pm local time. ONGC’s emergency response teams contained and extinguished the blaze before it could spread to other platform infrastructure. All ten injured workers were reported in stable condition with what were described as minor injuries. Normal production resumed shortly after the incident. The cause of the fire has not been disclosed, and ONGC said it would release further details once its internal investigation was complete. Here is what we want you to understand before anything else: that fire happened in Indian territorial waters, on an…

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Jul 15, 2026

Offshore Platform Fire & Workplace Injury Attorneys — Ten Workers Injured in the Blaze at ONGC’s SHP Platform on the Mumbai High Asset in the Arabian Sea, a Field With a Documented History of Platform Fire Tragedies, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and the Jones Act and General Maritime Law Framework to Offshore Industrial Fire Cases, We Pursue the Platform Operators and Contractors Behind the Fire, We Secure the Gas-Detection Logs, Fire-Alarm Panel Data and CCTV Footage Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider — Maritime Recovery ($2M+ Recovered) and $50M+ Total for Injury Victims, Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

ONGC Mumbai High Platform Fire — What Happened and What It Means for Offshore Workers Everywhere You are reading this because fire broke out on a platform in the Arabian Sea, and ten people were hurt — or because you work offshore and you need to know what would happen if it were you. Either way, you need the truth about what the law does and does not cover when a platform catches fire 180 kilometers from the nearest shore. We are going to give you all of it — the facts of what happened at the ONGC SHP platform on the Mumbai High field, the safety regime that was supposed to prevent it, the medical reality of fire injuries at sea, the evidence that is already disappearing, and the hard jurisdictional truth about who can sue whom and where. Nothing held back. That is what this page is for. The ONGC SHP platform sits on the Mumbai High asset — one of India’s largest and oldest offshore hydrocarbon production complexes, operating in the Arabian Sea since the 1970s. On this day, fire broke out aboard the platform. Ten personnel sustained injuries. ONGC confirmed the fire was brought under control and extinguished. All ten injured workers were reported under medical care and in stable condition. The injuries were described as minor. No fatalities were reported. BP had been retained as an international technical services provider for production growth at the Mumbai High field in the year before the incident. If…

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Jul 15, 2026

Offshore Platform Fire & Workplace Industrial Accident Attorneys — Ten Workers Injured When Fire Ignited on ONGC’s SHP Platform in the Mumbai High Field 160 Km Off India’s Western Coast, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Offshore Oil-Rig Fire Litigation, We Pursue the Platform Operator and the Service Contractors Behind the Ignition, We Secure the Gas-Detection System Logs, Fire-Suppression Records and SCADA Data Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Offshore Injury Cases, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Maritime and Industrial Injury Matters — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

What Happened on the SHP Platform — and What It Means for the Ten Workers Who Were There If you were on the SHP Platform when the fire broke out at 17:45 on a Friday afternoon, or if someone you love was one of the ten workers who got hurt, you are reading this at a moment when the most important decisions are the ones made in the first days, not the first months. You are standing 160 kilometers from the nearest shore, on a structure that was supposed to be built to keep you safe, and the company that runs it has already said the fire is “under control,” the injuries are “minor,” and operations have “normalized” by Saturday morning. That speed — the rush to call it over — is the first thing that should make you slow down. We are Attorney911. We are a trial firm built for the moment everything goes wrong. Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court, and before he was a lawyer he was a journalist — which means he learned early that the first story told is rarely the whole story. Lupe Peña spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm, the rooms where claims like yours are priced and minimized, before he switched to this side of the table. He knows what the company’s people do in the first 48 hours because he used to do it. Both of us speak Spanish — we serve your family fully…

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Jul 15, 2026

Offshore Platform Lifeboat Accident & Wrongful Death Attorneys — Three Workers Killed and a Fourth Left With Serious Fractures When a Lifeboat Plunged From Platform Sepat in Terengganu-Kelantan Waters During a Maintenance Descent Beneath the Structure — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Offshore Workplace Fatalities, We Pursue the Platform Operators, Lifeboat and Davit System Manufacturers, and Maintenance Contractors Behind Equipment That Failed Under SOLAS Standards, We Secure the Lifeboat, Davit and Release Mechanism, CCTV Footage and Maintenance Records Before the Overwrite and Crew Rotation Erase Them, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Offshore Claims Are Valued and Denied, $2M+ Maritime Settlement and Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Offshore Platform Lifeboat Accidents: When the Equipment Meant to Save Lives Becomes the Killer You are reading this because someone you love went to work on an offshore platform and did not come home — or came home broken. Maybe it was a lifeboat that fell from a platform deck into the sea, the way it did at Platform Sepat in the Terengganu-Kelantan waters off Malaysia, where three workers died and one survived with serious fractures when a lifeboat plunged during a routine maintenance descent at 12:50 in the afternoon. Maybe it happened somewhere else, in different waters, on a different rig. The location changes. The physics do not. What you need to know right now is this: a lifeboat is supposed to be the thing that saves you when everything else goes wrong on a platform. When the lifeboat itself is what kills you — during a maintenance operation, not even an emergency — the questions that follow are not simple, and they are not answered by the first settlement check the company offers. They are answered by evidence that is already beginning to disappear, by an investigation the platform operator is already controlling, and by a legal framework that shifts depending on whose waters the platform sits in. We are the trial team at Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle offshore injury, workplace death, and maritime catastrophe cases. Ralph Manginello has spent 27 years in courtrooms, including federal court, building cases against companies that sent workers…

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