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Marine surveyors in the United States work a coastline that stretches from Houston and New Orleans on the Gulf, through Norfolk, New York City and Boston, to Los Angeles, Oakland and Seattle, plus Great Lakes ports like Cleveland. Foreign-flag ships face USCG examinations, so check requirements first.
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Southwest Passage Marine Surveys, LLC is the Portland, Oregon practice of Capt. Joseph A. Derie, an accredited marine surveyor with SAMS and a certified marine surveyor with NAMS. He handles marine and cargo surveys, investigates marine accidents and casualties, and acts as an expert witness in maritime cases.
San Diego Marine Surveyors & Associates surveys power and sailing boats for owners, buyers, lenders and insurers and offers no other services so as to stay objective. Its surveyor Captain Dean Ford is a SAMS AMS and NAMS SA, a former ABYC certified systems technician, and holds a USCG credential with sail and towing endorsements. A senior surveyor and engineer, a NAMS member since 1977, also covers hull and machinery on ships under 1,600 GT and marina facilities.
Port City Marine Surveyors is based in Mobile, Alabama, with principal surveyor Donald J. (DJ) Smith, SAMS AMS, covering areas including Orange Beach and Biloxi and taking jobs worldwide. Its listed services are pre-purchase and insurance surveys, moisture readings, thermal imaging, marine adjusting, damage surveys, accident investigation, expert witness work, appraisals and ultrasonic hull thickness gauging.
Offshore Marine Survey, LLC belongs to John VanTol, who holds SAMS accreditation as AMS #1483 and is an ABYC Certified Advisor, from Gratiot Avenue in Roseville, Michigan. It surveys boats throughout the Great Lakes region for purchase, insurance cover and independent assessment of losses or condition, and its owner spends much of his free time boating on Lake St. Clair.
MYS Marine Consultants and Southern Yacht Surveyors are run by Christopher L. Mills, SAMS AMS, ABYC standards accredited and an ABYC certified marine electrical technician. Through MYS he carries out pre-purchase and condition and value surveys in northwest Florida and Alabama, from Panama City, Destin and Pensacola to Apalachicola and Orange Beach. Southern Yacht Surveyors handles damage assessments, claims investigation and expert witness work across the USA, the Bahamas and the Caribbean.
Modern Marine Surveys is run by a surveyor who started taking boats apart at a repair yard at the age of twelve and studied marine power plants and vessel construction at New York City's only marine vocational high school. He worked for more than four decades as a marine technician and later shop foreman, became a Mercruiser Master Technician, holds ABYC certification and a USCG 100-ton licence, and worked on wood, steel, fibreglass and aluminium boats including the presidential yacht Sequoia. He now inspects boats for buyers and owners.
Miley Marine Surveying & Consulting covers the whole of Florida from offices on both coasts. Its team is Noel A. Miley and Austin W. Miley, both SAMS AMS, and Parker Miley, SAMS SA, all ABYC standards certified. It provides pre-purchase and insurance surveys, appraisals, damage and corrosion surveys, systems orientation, consulting and expert witness work in places from Fernandina Beach and Jacksonville to Key Largo, Naples and Clearwater.
Marine Surveyors of Baja California Sur is run by Richard W. Martin, a full-time NAMS Certified Marine Surveyor since 2009 with further training in corrosion, marine fire investigation and ultrasonic gauging of aluminium and steel hulls. In 2015 he took over the business of Lange, who had surveyed boats throughout Mexico for 25 years. He offers condition and valuation surveys, underwriter risk evaluations and damage surveys.
Jason Pinko Marine Survey is a rigging survey specialist working from Ormond Beach and Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Principal surveyor Jason Pinko surveys powerboats, sailing yachts and motor yachts for rigging, purchase, insurance damage claims, appraisals and expert witness work, regularly covering Florida's east coast from Fernandina and Jacksonville to Miami, as well as Savannah, Hilton Head and the Bahamas.
Marine Specialty Service, LLC is a mobile marine service company from the Boston area covering all of New England. As a SAMS Surveyor Associate it offers pre-purchase inspections, small craft and yacht surveys, mechanical surveys and damage claim surveys, alongside repairs and upgrades, yacht management, deliveries along the East Coast and the Great Lakes, and NSBC on-the-water instruction.
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