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When an Offshore Platform Explodes: Your Maritime Law Rights After an Oil Rig Fire or Industrial Disaster You are reading this at a hour when nobody should have to read anything. A platform burned. Someone you love did not come home, or came home changed in ways that will not heal on their own. You may not even know yet which country’s law applies to what happened, which company is responsible, or whether you have any legal rights at all. That uncertainty is the first thing we want to address, because it is the thing that keeps families from acting while the evidence is still alive. On April 1, 2015, an explosion and fire tore through the Abkatun Permanente processing platform in the Campeche Sound, a dense cluster of interconnected oil production and processing infrastructure in the southern Gulf of Mexico, operated by Petróleos Mexicanos — Pemex, Mexico’s state-owned petroleum company. Four workers were killed. Forty-five were injured. Three hundred were evacuated, some by helicopter, some by jumping into shallow waters to escape a fire they could not outrun. Eight fireboats fought the blaze. Among the dead was a contractor employee of Cotemar, a Mexican oil services company — a…