http://www.shiptalk.com/ Latest news from Shiptalk.com en-gb Copyright: (C) 2005 Shiptalk Ltd http://www.shiptalk.com/images/st_logo.gif http://www.shiptalk.com/ http://www.shiptalk.com?itemid=2836#newsFerry Officer Michael Hubble was found not guilty today of the manslaughter of three sailors who drowned in the English Channel when their yacht sank. http://www.shiptalk.com?itemid=2780#newsA father whose two children drowned in a boating accident made an angry "not guilty" plea as he appeared in North Shore District Court. http://www.shiptalk.com?itemid=2773#newsA Greek shipping company should be fined at least $9 million and banned from the United States for five years for dumping waste oil and trying to cover up its misconduct, federal prosecutors said. http://www.shiptalk.com?itemid=2762#newsA bitter battle has erupted between two groups of lawyers fighting over a windfall to be awarded to mostly Filipino ship workers. Eleven Filipinos and one Korean stand to receive $437,000 each for blowing the whistle on their tanker for illegal offshore dumping. http://www.shiptalk.com?itemid=2720#newsA New Zealand court will decide whether the skipper of a boat on which his two children died endangered them by operating the vessel unsafely, says Maritime New Zealand (MNZ). http://www.shiptalk.com?itemid=2665#newsIn the latest edition of the ISM newsletter ReportISM, Dr Phil Anderson, Managing Director of ISM consultancy ConsultISM, highlights some of the potential exposure of ship operating companies under the "Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007". http://www.shiptalk.com?itemid=2580#newsUNCLOS come in for something of a battering from US political observers. http://www.shiptalk.com?itemid=2569#newsThe French shipbuilder of the giant luxury liner Queen Mary 2 went on trial yesterday charged with the manslaughter of 16 people and injuring 29 after they fell 18 metres to the ground when a walkway collapsed during a visit. http://www.shiptalk.com?itemid=2473#newsWhen the Queen of the North, the flagship of British Columbia's ferry service, went to the bottom after hitting an island on the north coast last year, crucial data logged in an onboard navigation system went down with the ship. http://www.shiptalk.com?itemid=2471#newsTwo Canadian Navy sailors, serving at Canadian Forces Fleet School in Esquimalt, have been charged with drug trafficking. http://www.shiptalk.com?itemid=2397#newsSeven Tunisian fishermen have been held in an Agrigento jail for a week for rescuing 44 asylum seekers who were drowning.