Marine

Marine

RTI Marine is an international maritime casualty and incident investigation group with over 20 highly skilled and experienced marine investigators with a range of backgrounds and areas of excellence. This group is supported by a large multi-disciplined team of investigators and experts in the rest of RTI that have been dealing with other high risk industry casualty investigations for over 30 years. We provide a unique service integrating the methodology and forensic science of the air accident and other high risk industries' investigators with the extensive experience of our marine investigators.

The Marine Group Services include:

• Back up and support service to complement the in-house casualty investigation team of Flag State Administrations, Coastal State Authorities and Port State Control Authorities.
• Casualty investigation and consultancy services to Ship Operating Companies, P&I Clubs, Insurers and their legal advisers.

Whether acting on behalf of flag states, ship operating companies, P&I clubs insurers or their advisers, RTI can conduct detailed surveys and inquiries into collisions, groundings, oil and chemical pollution, fires and explosions, dangerous cargo incidents, sinkings, human factor failures, loss of life, hull failure, fixed and floating object incidents and machinery and electrical systems breakdown. RTI's long experience of well proven aviation safety techniques enables them to analyse management systems and processes to establish the "root cause" of any incident. Careful analysis and clear and precise reporting make their services attractive to states reporting serious and very serious incidents to the IMO. Insurers and maritime lawyers will find RTI's team of mature and experienced expert witnesses of great benefit in mediation, arbitration and litigation.

Using the RTI Forensic Visuals team RTI Marine can produce accurate reconstructions of any marine incident by using recorded non-volatile and corrupted data from VDRs, GPS and other digital navigational and machinery monitoring equipment. Environmental records at the time of the incident can be used to make visual presentations more informative. Forensic visuals improve the understanding of what actually happened during any incident. As a training tool Forensic Visuals are invaluable during proactive safety management programs and assist greatly in reducing losses and high cost marine claims.