Extended Operational and Trade Vocabulary
Marine Accident Investigation Agencies and Landmark Inquiries glossary (page 2)
Vocabulary of marine casualty investigation: the independent investigation authorities such as AIBN, the IMO Casualty Investigation Code adopted by MSC.255(84), no-blame admissibility of safety-investigation evidence, administrative flag-State inquiries, and the landmark casualties like the Amoco Cadiz grounding that shaped accident-investigation practice.
258 defined terms.
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W
- Wreck Commissioner (UK)
- Historical United Kingdom judicial office under the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 responsible for formal investigations into shipping disasters, exemplified by Lord Mersey's inquiries into Titanic and…
X
- X-band radar evidence
- Class of operational evidence (navigation radar imagery and recorded tracks) used by investigators to reconstruct collision and grounding sequences.
- X-Press Pearl Casualty (2021)
- High-profile fire/loss illustrating cargo and pollution security risk.
Y
- Yantian Express fire (2019)
- German-flag container ship that suffered a major fire in the North Atlantic on 3 January 2019, investigated by the German BSU.
- Year of mandatory implementation (2010)
- 1 January 2010, the date on which the Casualty Investigation Code became mandatory through SOLAS XI-1/6.
Z
- Zeebrugge casualty
- See Herald of Free Enterprise casualty (1987).
- Zero-blame culture
- Operational corollary of the Casualty Investigation Code that encourages free disclosure by seafarers because their statements are protected from use in liability proceedings.
- Zone of substantially interested States
- Practical determination by the lead investigating State of which other States qualify as substantially interested for the purposes of the investigation.