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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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Jim Ruth Marine Consultants LLC was founded by Jim "Doc" Ruth, a NAMS Certified Marine Surveyor who has served as salvage master on many complex operations. As a civilian consultant he works for commercial, government and private clients on commercial vessel inspections, salvage and float-off operations, tow planning and heavy lift advice.
Gudgeon & Pintle Marine Surveys is based in New Bern, North Carolina, with principal surveyor Stephen T. Duncombe, SAMS AMS, serving the US East Coast. Its listed services are pre-purchase and insurance surveys, damage surveys, appraisals, project management and oil and fluid analysis.
Everest Consultants, Inc. surveys ships and cargo and consults for the marine and offshore sectors, with round-the-clock service from New Orleans and Houston. Its clients include underwriters, insurers, logistics and shipping firms, owners, managers and commodity traders, and its master mariners and chief engineers share more than a century of combined experience on bulk carriers, tankers, container and reefer ships. It is a NAMS member with an office on West Esplanade Ave.
Ethos Marine Surveyors works in Southwest Florida from Port Charlotte, inspecting boats for buyers, sellers and owners. Its surveys cover hull, engines, electrical systems and onboard equipment, and it offers pre-purchase, insurance and finance, and pre-sale surveys. Pre-purchase surveys are priced per foot for boats of 18 to 45 ft and include a short sea trial, an out-of-water bottom check and travel within an hour of Port Charlotte.
Ebb Tide Services is a marine surveying business whose surveyor, Snow, holds SAMS accreditation as AMS #938 and comes from a mechanical systems background. It works for buyers, owners and insurers, with pre-purchase and valuation surveys that can be booked online. Reports set out condition, safety concerns and value and are normally sent within 24 hours.
East Coast Marine Surveying and Thermal Imaging is run by principal surveyor Kenneth Roberts, SAMS AMS and a Level III certified thermographer, from Lothian near Annapolis, Maryland. He serves Maryland and the East Coast, with work further afield, offering pre-purchase and insurance surveys, fibreglass checks, computer engine analysis, oil and fuel testing, fume and gas detection, thermal imaging and appraisals.
CWS Maritime Services is the practice of Chuck Solarek, one of the surveyors working under the Surveyors For Hire name in Everett, Washington. He is a SAMS Accredited Marine Surveyor for yachts and small craft and has served as the society's vice president of membership. Surveyors For Hire takes condition and value, pre-purchase and insurance survey requests on wooden, fibreglass and steel boats, and its surveyors also inspect commercial craft such as fishing trawlers.
Crowley Vessel Survey is the business of Captain Dennis Crowley, AMS, who has more than four decades in boating and the marine trade. He surveys recreational and commercial vessels across Western Washington and the Olympic Peninsula, offering pre-purchase inspections for buyers, condition and value surveys for insurers, and appraisals for financing, estates, sales and donations. The current website is a temporary page while a new one is built.
Colletti Marine Surveyors & Crane Inspection is a two-generation business of more than 45 years, based on Western Ave in Hickory, Pennsylvania. It serves Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio and Maryland, where its pleasure craft surveyor, ABYC certified for gas and diesel engines, electrical and marine systems, has completed hundreds of surveys for buyers, insurers, lenders and damage claims over two decades. It also carries out crane inspections and the five-year ISE/drydock surveys required by the Coast Guard.
Champion Marine, LLC is the practice of Rick Fisher, who turned to marine surveying full time in 2007 after years in boating safety and boater education, including heading Houston's USCG-sponsored Vessel Safety Check programme. In January 2007 he finished first in his surveying class at Chapman School of Seamanship, then gained ABYC standards accreditation and moved from SAMS Surveyor Associate to AMS after four years. Besides pre-purchase and insurance surveys he does a lot of damage claim work for insurers and policyholders.
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