MATTER OF PACIFIC ADVENTURES, INC.

No. CIV. 97-00216 ACK, CIV. 97-00325 ACK.

5 F.Supp.2d 874 (1998)

In the Matter of PACIFIC ADVENTURES, INC. In the Matter of TROPICAL HYDRO, INC. Stacy COURTNEY, Limitation Claimant/Third Party Plaintiff, v. PACIFIC ADVENTURES, INC. and Tropical Hydro, Inc., et al., Third Party Defendants. PACIFIC ADVENTURES, INC. and Tropical Hydro, Inc., et al., Fourth Party Plaintiffs, v. Jeff JENSEN, Fourth Party Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Hawaii.

March 26, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julie H. China, Alcantara & Frame, Honolulu, HI, for Pacific Adventures, Inc., a/k/a Rainbow Chaser, O.N. 973629.

Michael Jay Green, David J. Gierlach, Robert E. Rapp, Honolulu, HI, for Stacy Courtney.

Michael Jay Green, David J. Gierlach, Honolulu, HI, for Jeff Jensen.

Roy Y. Yempuku, Yempuku & Kugisaki, Honolulu, HI, Steven D. Smelser, Law Offices of Matthew W. Monroe, Hermosa Beach, CA, David W. Proudfoot, SeaLaw Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, for Leslie Farnel.

Roy Y. Yempuku, Yempuku & Kugisaki, Honolulu, HI, Steven D. Smelser, Law Offices of Matthew W. Monroe, Hermosa Beach, CA, Paul H. Felser, Portman & Felser, Savannah, GA, for Tropical Hydro, Inc., as Owner of agent Kainalu, M/V, Kainalu, M/V, Dive Maui, Inc.

Roy Y. Yempuku, Yempuku & Kugisaki, Honolulu, HI, Matthew W. Monroe, Monroe & Shapiro LLP, Hermosa Beach, CA, Steven D. Smelser, Law Offices of Matthew W. Monroe, Hermosa Beach, CA, Paul H. Felser, Portman & Felser, Savannah, GA, for Dive Pacific Intern., Inc. d/b/a Offshore Adventures.

Deborah E. Barack, Carlsmith Ball Wichman Case & Ichiki, Honolulu, HI, for Brad K. Stafford, Individually, and as First Mate of Kai Nalu, Divemaster d/b/a Green Weaver Charters.

Brian M. Pearce, Carlsmith Ball Wichman Murray Case Mukai & Ichiki, Honolulu, HI, for Bradley K. Stafford.


ORDER DENYING STAFFORD'S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

KAY, Chief Judge.

BACKGROUND

This action is based on an accident involving a scuba diver and a vessel at sea. On or about January 10, 1997, the "Kai Nalu," a vessel owned by Tropical Hydro, Inc. ("Tropical"), took Stacey Courtney and Jeff Jensen, her fiance and dive buddy, on a dive excursion to a dive spot near the Island of Lanai known as Shark Fin Rock. Leslie Farnel, the

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