Identifying Data 2023/24
Subject (*) Maritime accidents Investigation Code 631G01512
Study programme
Grao en Náutica e Transporte Marítimo
Descriptors Cycle Period Year Type Credits
Graduate 1st four-month period
Fourth Optional 6
Language
Spanish
Teaching method Face-to-face
Prerequisites
Department Ciencias da Navegación e Enxeñaría Mariña
Coordinador
Cao Feijóo, Genaro
E-mail
genaro.cao@udc.es
Lecturers
Cao Feijóo, Genaro
E-mail
genaro.cao@udc.es
Web
General description O obxectivo desta materia consiste en proporcionar os coñecementos básicos no proceso da investigación de accidentes e incidentes marítimos, e servir de ferramenta científica introdutoria que permita orientar a actividade profesional ao estudo técnico dos accidentes no mar.

Study programme competencies
Code Study programme competences
A10 Redactar e interpretar documentación técnica e publicacións náuticas.
A40 Capacidad para identificar daños y defectos en la estructura del buque.
A41 Capacidad para identificar evidencias ante casos de accidentes y siniestros marítimos.
A42 Capacidad para recabar información objetiva en las entrevistas personales.
A44 Capacidad para redactar informes técnicos.
B2 Resolver problemas de xeito efectivo.
B3 Aplicar un pensamento crítico, lóxico e creativo.
B9 Capacidade para interpretar, seleccionar e valorar conceptos adquiridos noutras disciplinas do ámbito marítimo, mediante fundamentos físico-matemáticos.
B13 Comunicar por escrito e oralmente os coñecementos procedentes da linguaxe científica.
B14 Capacidade de análise e síntese.
B20 Desenvolverse para o exercicio dunha cidadanía aberta, culta, crítica, comprometida, democrática e solidaria, capaz de analizar a realidade, diagnosticar problemas, formular e implantar solucións baseadas no coñecemento e orientadas ao ben común.
B24 Valorar a importancia que ten a investigación, a innovación e o desenvolvemento tecnolóxico no avance socioeconómico e cultural da sociedade.
C4 Desenvolverse para o exercicio dunha cidadanía aberta, culta, crítica, comprometida, democrática e solidaria, capaz de analizar a realidade, diagnosticar problemas, formular e implantar solucións baseadas no coñecemento e orientadas ao ben común.
C6 Valorar criticamente o coñecemento, a tecnoloxía e a información dispoñible para resolver os problemas cos que deben enfrontarse.
C11 Que os estudantes sexan capaces de integrar coñecementos e enfrontarse á complexidade de formular xuízos a partires dunha información que, sendo incompleta ou limitada, inclúa reflexións sobre as responsabilidades sociais e éticas vencelladas á aplicación dos seus coñecementos e xuízos
C12 Que os estudantes saiban comunicar as suas conclusións e os coñecementos e razóns últimas que as sustentan a públicos especializados e non especializados dun xeito claro e sin ambigüidades

Learning aims
Learning outcomes Study programme competences
Knowledge of national and international regulations applicable to maritime transport. B20
C6
C11
Application of national and international regulations in the investigation of claims and maritime events. C4
C6
Ability to identify damage to the structure of the ship. A40
Collection of evidence, personal interviews. A41
A42
B9
Write reports and compile statistics. A10
A44
B2
B3
B13
B14
B24
C12

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
1. Need to investigate accidents.

Difference with Judicial, Police or Expert Investigations.
Other regulatory investigations.
2. Regulations related to the Investigation of Claims and



Maritime Events.
International regulations.
European regulations.
Spanish regulations.
3. A.849 (20) and A.884(21). Code for the Investigation of Marine Casualties and Incidents. Code structure.
Definitions.
Most important aspects.
Human Factor.
4. National Organizations in charge of Investigations.



Most important organisms.
International Forum of Marine Accident Investigators (MAIIF).
Commission of Investigation of Accidents and Maritime Incidents (CIAIM). Spain.
5. Methodologies for conducting the Research.





A.1075 (28): Guidelines to assist investigators in the implementation of the Casualty Investigation Code.
MAIIF Investigation Manual.
MAIIF Investigators ’In-the-field Job Aid
MAIIF Fire Investigation Manual.
Other methodologies.
6. Writing the Report.


Phases in writing.
Items to cover.
Terminology.
A.918 (22). SMCP
7. IMO Reporting. IMO Global Integrated Shipping Information System (GISIS)
8. Statistics. Examples of statistical databases.
9. Examples of Investigations. Comments on Research Reports

Planning
Methodologies / tests Competencies Ordinary class hours Student’s personal work hours Total hours
Guest lecture / keynote speech A10 B3 B9 B14 B20 B24 C6 30 60 90
Objective test A41 B14 2 0 2
Oral presentation B9 B13 C12 3 18 21
Supervised projects A10 A40 A41 A42 A44 B2 B3 B9 B13 B14 B20 B24 C4 C6 C11 5 30 35
 
Personalized attention 2 0 2
 
(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies
Methodologies Description
Guest lecture / keynote speech In the activity of the lecture guest, the contents that make up the theoretical framework will be worked on through oral presentation, guided by the use of presentations, audiovisual media and with the introduction of directed questions to the students with the purpose of favouring learning and the construction of knowledge.
There will be an introductory general exposition of each one of the two different themes of which the program consists, indicating the aspects that the students should expand with their personal work, with the appropriate orientations bibliographic.
Objective test Final exam
Oral presentation On the supervised projects
Supervised projects Projects carried out by students (individuals and/or in groups) regarding two contents of the subject.
Throughout the four-month period, one or several assignments will be provided around two contents of the agenda that must be based on the basic and complementary bibliography of the guide and with another selected by the teaching staff and/or student pole.
Its realization will begin in the classroom and be completed through the autonomous work of the students, attending more indications provided through the differentiation of teachers. Through the exhibition in the classroom, the work done will be shared.

Personalized attention
Methodologies
Objective test
Oral presentation
Guest lecture / keynote speech
Description
The personalized differentiation described in relation to these methodologies is conceived as moments of work with the subject teachers.
The way and the moment in which it will be developed will be indicated in each activity throughout the course according to the plan of matter work.
Students with recognition of part-time dedication as established by the "RULE THAT REGULATES THE REGIME OF DEDICATION TO THE STUDY OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS AT UDC (Articles 2.3; 3.b and 4.5)(05/29/2012). These students will develop their activity with the assistance and participation in the dynamics collected in Step 4 "Planning" and in the one that concerns us "Personalized attention" described for the " Supervised projects", through the workgroups that are formed in the subject. The activity will be carried out according to the observations of the evaluation regarding the flexibility of attendance participation and the requirements for overcoming the subject.

Assessment
Methodologies Competencies Description Qualification
Objective test A41 B14 The evaluation criteria referred to in Table A-II/1 of the STCW Code, and collected in the Quality Assurance System, will be taken into account when designing and carrying out the evaluation. 60
Oral presentation B9 B13 C12 To evaluate the presentation, it will be evaluate:
- Relevance and organization of the exposed contents.
- Coordination of the presentation (reflecting collaborative work, not a sum of parts).
- Level of understanding of the basic contents.
- Clear explanation
10
Supervised projects A10 A40 A41 A42 A44 B2 B3 B9 B13 B14 B20 B24 C4 C6 C11 To evaluate the projects it will be taken into account:
- Structure: presentation, content organization, clear explanation and grammar.
- Content: Understanding of basic ideas, conceptual mastery, use of the sources worked on in the treatment of content throughout the semester and relationships between them.

20
Guest lecture / keynote speech A10 B3 B9 B14 B20 B24 C6 The evaluation criteria referred to in Table A-II/1 of the STCW Code, and collected in the Quality Assurance System, will be taken into account when designing and carrying out the evaluation. 10
 
Assessment comments

STCW Convention
2010: The evaluation criteria referred to in Table A-II/1 of the STCW Code, and
collected in the Quality Assurance System, will be taken into account when
designing and carrying out the evaluation.

To pass the
subject following the continuous evaluation it is necessary to pass each
methodology. in-session lecture, at the same time as class attendance ( minimum
of 80%), the student participation will be valued too.

Students who do
not follow the continuous assessment will always have the option of taking the
objective test. Consequently, under this circumstance, this will have a value
in the evaluation of 100%.

Students with
recognition of part-time dedication and the corresponding academic waiver that
provide the assistance exemption, as established in the "RULE THAT
REGULATES THE DEDICATION REGIME TO THE STUDY OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS AT UDC
(Articles 2.3; 3. b; 4.3; 6. b and 7.5) (05/04/2017) may carry out the partial
tests, if any, without the need to attend 80% of the face-to-face classes, as
long as the teacher is duly informed at the beginning of the course.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the professor can entrust these students with
different works (individual and/or in groups) throughout the course to be
presented in the tutorial schedule in order to score in the continuous
evaluation the proportional part of the value of the master session.

About the
sanctions applicable for de commission of serious offenses, article 11 of the
Disciplinary Regulations of de student body of the University of A Coruña,
approved by the Governing Council on 27/02/2023, point b) was amende in june
2023, to read:

b)
Qualification of suspense in the call in wich the fault it was commited, the
student will be graded with “fail” (numerical grade 0) in the corresponding
call of the academic year, wheter the commission of the fault occurs at the
first opportunity or at the second. For this, we will proceed to modify his
qualification in the minutes of the first opportunity, if necessary.


Sources of information
Basic

IMO Resolution A.849(20).  

IMO Resolution A.884(21). 

IMO Resolution A.1075(28). 

MAIIF Investigation Manual.

MAIFF Investigators "In-the-field Job Aid".

MAIIF Fire Investigation Manual.

Complementary


Recommendations
Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before

Subjects that are recommended to be taken simultaneously

Subjects that continue the syllabus

Other comments

"-Segundo se recolle nas distintas normativas de aplicación para a docencia universitaria deberase incorporar a perspectiva de xénero nesta materia (usarase linguaxe non sexista, utilizarase bibliografía de autores/as de ambos sexos, propiciarase a intervención en clase de alumnos e alumnas...)

-Traballarase para identificar e modificar prexuízos e actitudes sexistas e influirase na contorna para modificalos e fomentar valores de respecto e igualdade. 

-Deberanse detectar situacións de discriminación por razón de xénero e proporanse accións e medidas para corrixilas."



(*)The teaching guide is the document in which the URV publishes the information about all its courses. It is a public document and cannot be modified. Only in exceptional cases can it be revised by the competent agent or duly revised so that it is in line with current legislation.