Danish Maritime Accident Investigation Board
DMAIB: its remit over Danish-flagged ships and Danish waters, its investigative approach, and the limits of what it does and does not investigate.
The Danish Maritime Accident Investigation Board, DMAIB, investigates marine casualties involving Danish-flagged ships and, within limits, occurrences in Danish waters. It is known for an investigative approach that examines how work is actually performed rather than only whether a procedure was followed.
The full article will cover its remit, its independence, its report series and its methodology, together with the jurisdictional boundary that decides when a casualty in Danish waters is investigated by the coastal State, by the flag State, or by neither.
That boundary matters more than it appears. Two of the three fatal wood pellet off-gassing casualties in Danish waters were investigated by a foreign flag State and by a police force respectively, not by DMAIB, and the record is frequently misattributed to it.