WISDOM, Circuit Judge:
This case presents several questions concerning damages for wrongful deaths occurring in state territorial waters.
The freighter Helena collided with the United States Coast Guard vessel White Alder at about 6:30 p.m. on December 7, 1968, on the Mississippi River near Bayou Goula, Louisiana. Seventeen of the crewmen of the White Alder were killed, and the lives of three were miraculously spared. Two days after the collision, Sincere...
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