Former Diamond Offshore employee posts on “scapegoating, cover-ups, whistleblowing and manslaughter”

The website The Ghostly Galleon.com appears dedicated to making the public aware of Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc’s culture of “scapegoating, cover-ups, whistleblowing and manslaughter,” which is the title of one of the articles on the site.

Other prominent articles on the site include “Understanding the Jones Act- A Discussion on Diamond Offshore’s Dirty Tricks Department” and “Obstruction of Justice at Diamond Offshore.”

The site discusses a number of accidents on Diamond vessels including one on Christmas Day, 2007 where a “third party electrician badly in need of offshore training” almost capsized the Ocean Whittington after accidently kicking open a ballast valve in the control room. Another story is about a $4.9 million jury verdict for a seaman who suffered serious injuries after malfunctioning equipment knocked him 20 feet onto the deck of the Ocean Yorktown. There is also an account of a new-hire whose leg was amputated in an auger because of a lack of training.

The author of these articles claims to have been a former safety / paramedic with Diamond who was the victim of a wrongful termination as a result of being a whistleblower of the company’s shoddy safety practices.

Through numerous articles supported with vast details, the author makes the case that Diamond routinely covers up their failure to provide proper training to new hires in order to lower their exposure to monetary claims for negligence.

While we cannot verify the veracity of the author’s allegations of cover-ups and scapegoating, it is a well-documented fact confirmed by a quick Google search that Diamond Offshore has been a defendant in many lawsuits.

Diamond operates a large number of semi-submersible platforms under Marshall Islands registry off the coast of Brazil. It is a Houston-based company.

If you were injured working for Diamond Offshore Drilling, contact an experienced maritime law firm at once.