The Jones Act is one of the last protectors of US jobs from foreign labor remaining . The Jones Act is a cabotage law which in a nutshell says that only US ships flying the US flag, built in US shipyards and manned by US mariners may work in US territorial waters. The Gulf of Mexico and it's oil have been invaded by foreign ships and they have received waivers from the Jones Act by the US Coast Guard. These vessels are taking good paying jobs from US merchant mariners in order to take oil out of waters owned by the US citizens to enrich 'big oil'. It is amazing to me that this being allowed to go on when the US employment situation is deteriorating daily. Here are some of the ships and their owners some of whom operate under a shell US corporation.
1. Ocean Intervention III (Oceaneering International) 2. Olympic Intervention IV (Oceaneering International) 3. Olympic Challenger (Global Industries) 4. REM Commander (Global Industries) 5. Siem Swordfish (Veolia Environmental) 6. Kingfisher (Veolia Environmental) 7. Nor Tigerfish (Veolia Environmental) 8. Gulmar Falcon (not known at this time) 9. Gulmar Condor (not known at this time) 10. Kestrel (CalDive) 11. Uncle John (CalDive) 12. Mystic Viking (CalDive) 13. Balder (Heerema) 14. Thialf (Heerema) 15. Safe Concordia (Consafe Offshore) 16. CSO Deep Blue (Coflexip) 17. Normand Clipper (Clough Offshore) 18. Epic Diver (Epic Diving & Marine) 19. BOA Subsea (Aker Solutions) 20. BOA Deepsea (Aker Solutions) 21. Northern Resolution (C&C Technologies) 22. Caballo Buffala (not known at this time)
Coming soon will be the
1. Haliva Phoenix (Phoenix Diving) 2. Viking Poseidon (Veolia Environmental) 3. Caesar (Helix Energy Solutions)
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