Tidewater Marine, Inc. v. Sanco International, Inc.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

MENTZ, District Judge.

Tidewater Marine, Inc. (Tidewater Marine) and Twenty Grand Offshore, Inc. (Twenty Grand) (collectively referred to herein as Tidewater) brought this suit in admiralty for damages to the M/V MAC TIDE 63, an offshore tug. The MAC TIDE 63 was damaged when it struck a submerged, unlighted obstruction to navigation and sank in the Gulf of Mexico, in South Timbalier Block 96 off the coast of Louisiana. The obstruction was a portion of the D/B OCEAN STAR, a three-legged jack-up rig, which had broken while under tow eleven months prior to the allision.

Tidewater…