Matter of Adventure Bound Sports, Inc.

ORDER AND MEMORANDUM

NANGLE, District Judge.

This case arose from a deep sea scuba diving accident that occurred on June 4, 1989, in which Paul Wentzel and Warren Seeds were killed. 1 The owners of the vessel involved in the accident filed a petition for exoneration from and/or limitation of liability, and the decedents’ personal representatives filed claims for recovery pursuant to the Death on the High Seas Act, 46 U.S.C.App. §§ 761-768 (1975) (“DOHSA”). The Court bifurcated this case on the issues of liability and damages and, after a bench trial on the liability question, denied the owners’…