“Everybody who gets in a boat is bound by these rules.” Pundt calls the Rules “The Bible.” The Navigation Rules, called COLREGs, an acronym for Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, “are written such that they apply alike to all vessels: commercial vessels, recreational vessels, large vessels, small vessels,” Brown said. Pundt has an unlimited Master’s license, 21 years of oceangoing time, and eight years as captain of a tanker. Ralph Pundt, is part of a four-year focus on bridge training, to be learned and absorbed for life, just as first year law students learn to identify issues and first-year medical students learn anatomy. (With a caveat: Brown said, “Each country can bend those rules to their liking.” He said a section of the rules called Special Circumstances deals with these differences.) A course called “Rules of the Road,” taught to second-year students at MMA by Capt.
International maritime law holds for all vessels. Brown of Maine Maritime, “this type of thing happens all too often,” and cited an example he uses in his class (see related story). The case promises to be an intricate, drawn-out affair. The Russian Embassy in Canada, in turn, filed an official protest with the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, expressing outrage at the “unjustified actions of the Canadian authorities …” and demanding the immediate return of the crew to the vessel. Previous to the arrests, according to the Vladivostok News, all 22 VIRGO crewmembers had been ordered by the RCMP to leave the ship “at gun point” and were lodged at a St. They were subsequently released on bail after surrendering their passports. Johns, Newfoundland, airport, as they attempted to leave the country, and took them into custody. Upon receipt of the arrest warrants, the RCMP arrested the three Russians at the St. The complaint charged each with involuntary manslaughter and destroying the life of another person by their misconduct, negligence, or inattention to their duties as the captains and persons employed on a vessel. Vladimir Ivanov, along with Second Officer Dmitri Bogdanov, and Able-Bodied Seaman Mikhail Gerasimenko – the VIRGO crew members on watch at the time of the collision. C., and asked the Court to issue arrest warrants for Capt. Cornett of the Coast Guard’s Investigative Service filed a criminal complaint in the U. Canadian authorities detained the vessel when it docked at Come By Chance, Newfoundland, Canada to reload.Īlmost immediately the international politics of four nations and the constabularies of two, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the U. Coast Guard’s investigation of the collision led to the 541-foot Cypriot-registered, Russian tanker VIRGO.
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