Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Product liability?

[Carsten Standfuss <Merlinsub@t-online.de>]

I found a solution. 

Maybe Euronaut will someday sold to another person. 

I prefer an US-Citizien. If he died - because he handle the sub wrong or
something failed - and his wife cry a court - I have not to much worry
about it. A German citizien will never have to leave Germany to go to an
US-court. He is safe in Europe.. I think same is in the opposite
direction. And a german court will give the remaining wife not more than
some 10.000 USd for a dead father of her childrens.. Very low rates here
for dead.. 

Please note that I am a naval engineer. If I sold the sub to another
german and he make a mistake and died.. a german court will teach me
that I am responsible for that dead.. The simple reason for that is that
I have the knowledge and he not. 

Last year a scuba-instructor dives together here with a young diver
(with licence) - and the young diver died. During the died of the young
diver the Instructor was on 30 meter deep and the young man on 8 meter
deep far away. Later the court found this instructor guilty - because he
has the better knowledge. Please note that instructor was NOT the
teacher of the young guy - which has allready made his diving-licence
some weeks earlier. 

Here the court looking allways for somebody is responsible - even it was
a single man - single sub accident.. Maybe the builder or if not
available the owner of the lake.. whatever.. 

Somebody has to pay.. 

If a child here follows a ball/bird and runs on a higway (Autobahn - no
speed limit here) with cars running 240 kmh (about 150 miles an hour) an
a car hit and kill this child - the will grap the driver for shure. The
law here says simple that you have allways to drive at a speed you can
break under all possible circumstance.. 

Euronaut will end in the hand of a Museum or a US-Citizen 
and Peppers in a Dutch or German Museum.. 

best regards Carsten



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