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When an Offshore Platform Explodes: What Your Family Needs to Know Right Now If you are reading this page, someone you love was aboard the Cidade de Sao Mateus when it detonated — or you were there yourself, and you are trying to understand what just happened to your life. You may be in a hospital in Vitoria. You may be at a kitchen table in Espirito Santo, or in Houston, or in Oslo, waiting for a phone call that tells you whether your husband, your father, your son is alive. You may have already been told by a company representative — someone from Petrobras or BW Offshore — that Brazilian labor law is your only option, that you should sign papers, that the investigation will take time and you should be patient. Stop. Read this first. Then call us. Here is what the company representative did not tell you: a floating production, storage, and offloading vessel — an FPSO — is a vessel under maritime law. If anyone aboard that platform was an American citizen with seaman status, a completely different legal system opens up, one that includes the right to a jury trial and the full measure of…