Legal Opinion
Wood v. Subsea International, Inc.
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided March 29, 2000No. 99-CA-1320PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
L BYRNES, Judge.
SubSea International, Inc. (“SubSea”) appeals a judgment awarding damages to SubSea’s employee, Chad E. Wood, for injuries sustained while he was a seaman performing his duties as a diver tender on a fixed platform in the Gulf of Mexico. We affirm as amended.
The accident occurred on August 30, 1994 when Wood was tending the diving hose of a SubSea diver, Kurt Hopper, making a dive off the fixed platform, Nor-cen Exploration Rig No. 306-B. When the diver was approximately 90 feet below the surface, Wood received instructions from the dive van to come up on the diver’s hose.…
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