Moyer v. Klosters Rederi

How courts have described this case

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• applying DOH-SA where the decedent died ashore after suffering a heart attack while snorkeling in Cozumel, Mexico
• applying DOHSA where the decedent died ashore after suffering a heart attack while snorkeling in Cozumel, Mexico
• rejecting argument that defendant’s land-based acts of negligence causing injury on the high seas “rendered admiralty jurisdiction inappropriate”
• finding that DOHSA applied to a passenger on a vessel
• “With respect to the applicability of DOHSA to -an incident occurring in waters directly offshore at Cozumel, a look at the relevant statutory-language fails to provide clear guidance.”
• “The key operative fact ... is that the decedent’s illness commenced while he was participating in the snorkeling expedition; i.e., while he was on the high seas, as defined by DOHSA.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).