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Review Period Open through February 23 - Investigative Training for Boating Incidents

Nov 22, 2022

This draft standard was originally produced by the Boating Incident Investigation Standard Workgroup under funding from a U.S. Coast Guard National Nonprofit grant. This is the first public review period under the process to be recognized as an American National Standard.

This 90-day public review period will close February 23, 2023.

Investigative Training for Boating Incidents standard is for use in curriculum development and training of recreational boating incident investigators in the U.S. States, Territories, and District of Columbia. These Standards provide commonality for recreational boat incident investigations, general vessel terminology, navigation rules and regulations, environmental distractions, witness interviews, collision dynamics, evidence collection and preservation, diagramming, and report writing, including adherence to definitions and detail in the incident narrative with particular focus on human factor causal elements. Standards are developed with intention to be recognized as the industry standard.

Contact Matt Majors (matt.majors@nasbla.org or Kaci Christopher (kaci.christopher@nasbla.org) if you have questions or would like additional information.

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