Accidents at Sea

The personal injury team at Bond Pearce have been acting for those who have been injured at sea or have suffered financial loss in accidents at sea for many years. We have acted for injured divers, off shore workers, oil riggers, fishermen, tourists, cruise passengers, cruise ship staff, powerboat racers and submariners in a range of incidents involving accidents at sea, injuries, industrial disease, illness whilst on holiday, equipment failures, lack of safety equipment, poisoning, electrical faults causing fires and explosions and injuries as a result of non-seaworthy vessels. We have specialist knowledge of acting for those in the armed forces and we have also sadly dealt with a number of fatalities as a result of marine accidents.

If you have or a loved one has suffered an injury at sea due to the negligence of soemone else contact one of our accident at sea lawyers for specialist legal advice. You can either fill out our online enquiry form, request a call back or call us direct on 0800 915 4650.

We have knowledge of the fishing, merchant, armed forces and tourist industries and as a result of this experience we have considerable expertise in dealing with accident at sea compensation claims.

Accidents at sea can be complex, for example some accidents occur in foreign waters or onshore at foreign ports. We have success in brining claims for peronsal injury bothin the UK and overseas and have developed close working relationships with lawyers in other countries. We also act for seafarers who are not UK citizens where their injury claim can be brought in the English courts.

We have included some of our cases below to highlight the range of work and specialist knowledge required. They include acting for a Royal Naval Officer who was seriously injured whilst descending a ladder chain, an oil rigger who was injured when he was struck by a drill being operated incorrectly by one of his co-workers, cruise passengers struck down by severe food poisoning as a result of contaminated buffet food, a fisherman who lost his leg when it became caught in a bit of rope that was paying out overboard, a submariner who suffered PTSD as a result of a compartment that flooded when his submarine started to dive, a young girl who lost her eye as a result of a speedboat accident. We have also included the case of a group of men who hired out a fishing vessel. The vessel was not seaworthy and it sadly ended in tragedy for two of the crew when the boat sank.