Makin v. Empresa Lineas Maritimas Argentinas

MEMORANDUM OPINION

DAVID S. NELSON, District Judge.

These consolidated admiralty cases arise out of a collision between an Argentine dry bulk carrier, the M/V SANTA CRUZ II (SANTA CRUZ), owned by the defendant, Empresa Lineas Marítimas Argentinas, S.A., (ELMA) and the United States Coast Guard Cutter CUYAHOGA (CUYAHOGA), on October 20, 1978 in the lower Chesapeake Bay off the coast of Baltimore, Maryland. The CUYAHOGA sank minutes after the collision; eleven of her crew died and others were injured. The plaintiffs, four injured crewmen on the CUYAHOGA and those suing on behalf of the eleven who…