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Expert Witness in Maritime Casualty Litigation

Thirty years of practice as a naval architect, including fifteen years as a Professor of Naval Architecture at Webb Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the University of New Orleans.

Over two decades of experience in forensic analysis to determine proximate cause of loss or damage in maritime casualties involving circumstances such as:
 
Structural damage due to heavy weather, design defects, collision, corrosion, and/or fatigue
 
Cargo loss or damage due to heavy weather and/or improper stowage
 
Effects of wake created by passing vessel
 
Loss of stability (capsizing)
 
Loss of buoyancy (sinking)
 
Accident reconstruction