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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…