15.1 States should ensure that marine safety investigating
Authorities have available to them sufficient material and financial
resources and suitably qualified personnel to enable them to facilitate
the State’s obligations to undertake marine safety investigations
into marine casualties and marine incidents under this Code.
15.2 Any investigator forming part of a marine
safety investigation should be appointed on the basis of the skills
outlined in resolution A.1070(28) for
investigators.
15.3 However, paragraph 15.2 does not preclude
the appropriate appointment of investigators with necessary specialist
skills to form part of a marine safety investigation on a temporary
basis, neither does it preclude the use of consultants to provide
expert advice on any aspect of a marine safety investigation.
15.4 Any person who is an investigator, in a marine
safety investigation, or assisting a marine safety investigation,
should be bound to operate in accordance with this Code.