Don wrote:


> And here is some food for thought:  The Peter Hughes release defines
> "Releasees" as
> Peter Hughes Diving, Walindi Plantation Dive Cruises Pty, Ltd. (owner of
> the boat?)

Well, this is obviously the release used on the Febrina, one of their boats
in PNG.

> their principals, directors, officers, employees, agents, yada,
> yada, yada.  The release does not seem to include the company that made
the
> boat, or the company that refitted the boat as a live-aboard dive boat.
So
> what if the families sue these companies claiming a defective boat (rolled
> too easily, etc) and then these companies sue Peter Hughes saying the boat
> wasn't defective but Hughes was negligent.  These companies never signed a
> release?

Remind me to hire you if I ever get in one of those situations I described
in a previous post :-)

Bjorn