Marine Casualty or Marine Incident Investigations

Marine Casualty or Marine Incident Investigations

Under public and global guidelines, Grenada has the obligation to lead an examination concerning any setback happening to ships under its banner and additionally including any boat working in Grenadan regional oceans. Marine Inspectors utilized at the GMA are relegated to explore dispatching mishaps.



Public guidelines require the administrator or proprietor of a sporting vessel to document a sailing mishap report with the GMA if the sporting vessel is associated with a mishap that outcomes in any of the accompanying:

  • An individual passes on while installed
  • An individual is harmed installed and requires clinical treatment past medical aid
  • An individual vanishes from the vessel under conditions that demonstrate demise or injury
  • Harm to the vessel including conditions relating to the misfortune, abandoning, establishing, surrender, or material harm to a vessel, or harm brought about by a vessel (counting contamination harm) to the climate.

The report ought to be made to the GMA within 48 hours from the hour of the mishap. The data gave is utilized to set up guidelines and wellbeing principles, recognize and cure boat deserts, teach sporting boaters, catch factual information, research mishaps, and measure the adequacy of drifting security programs.