OPINION
MARSH, District Judge.
The motor vessel FIR GROVE set out on its maiden voyage from the Shin Kurushimi dock yard A at the Port of Onishi, Japan, in January of 1989. The FIR GROVE is owned by Delica Shipping, S.A. and was designed and built by Hisao Otani, an engineer for Inui Steamship, Ltd. The plaintiffs are fourteen former crew members of the FIR GROVE who were recruited to work aboard the vessel by Noimi Zabala, a manning agent in the Philippines...
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