Legal Opinion
Roach v. M/V Aqua Grace
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided October 26, 1988No. 87-3118PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARONOVITZ, District Judge:
This is an appeal from an order entering final summary judgment in favor of the remaining defendant and against the plaintiff in this action. We affirm.
Facts
In early 1984, Sea Scrub Systems, Inc. contracted with Carras Hellas, Ltd., owner of the M/V Aqua Grace, for the underwater hull cleaning of that merchant vessel at Tampa, Florida. Daniel Clyde Macon, an uncertified and inexperienced diver, was hired sight-unseen after a telephone interview with Robin Lamaire, the president and sole shareholder of Sea Scrub, as one of several divers to scrape the barnacles from…
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