Entries by Federico Borrea

Annual Meeting to be held next January

  The AGM is planned for January 2022  The Global Marine Investigators association is planning a meeting during the Düsseldorf Boatshow –COVID-19 permitting.  Yesterday we sent out a reminder, as the hotel option expires today.  However, there might be still rooms available and we hope to see you in Düsseldorf!  The AGM is planned for […]

Towards a new normality – GMI meets IAATI_EB Vehicle Crime Investigators

These days our Vice President Matthias Böhmen and our Treasurer Ron Vermeulen are attending the IAATI_EB Vehicle Crime Investigators’ meeting in Ghent, Belgium. As we know, vehicle crime often overlaps with crime in the nautical world, and we continue our expansion of relationships and exchange in the world of prevention and fight against crime. We […]

Orca whales catching a sailor

Frightnening adventure for a  sailor feeling himself in unreversable trouble, when a pod of orca whales attacked his boat. The 27 years old  was under attack more than two hours by several of these mammals reaching  25ft long and weighting  five tonnes each “As per the best horror novel at one point all became quiet […]

Engines and boat thefts at rockbottom!

Engine and boat thefts at rock bottom     The four investigators from the competence center for boat crime Ba Den-Württemberg (KBK) at the Konstanz waterway police station, which is affiliated with the Göppingen Police Headquarters, reported the highest result for the recovery values ​​of stolen or misappropriated sports boats and outboard motors since the […]