Section 145Part 6 — PREVENTION OF COLLISIONS AND SAFETY OF NAVIGATION
Reports of accidents to ships
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145. (1) When a ship —
has sustained or caused any accident occasioning loss of life or any serious injury to any person; or
has sustained any material damage affecting its seaworthiness or its efficiency, either in its hull or in any part of its machinery, the owner or master of the ship shall, within twenty-four hours after the happening of the accident or causing of the damage or as soon as possible thereafter, transmit to the Chief Executive Officer, a report of the accident or damage.
Every report of accident or damage to a ship made under subsection (1) shall be signed by the owner or master of the ship, and shall state —
the name of the ship, the port to which the ship belongs, the official number, if any, of the ship and the place where the ship is located;
the circumstances in which the accident or damage occurred; and
the probable cause of the accident or damage.
If the owner or managing owner, or if there is no owner or managing owner resident in the Islands, the representative person of the owner or the agent of any ship to which this section applies, has reason to believe that the ship has sustained or caused any such accident or received any such damage as is mentioned in subsection (1), that person shall satisfy himself or herself that the accident or damage has been reported to Chief Executive Officer by the master.
Where any such owner, managing owner, representative person or agent has reason to believe that the accident or damage has not been so reported in accordance with subsection (3), that person shall, as soon as possible, send to the Chief Executive Officer notice in writing stating—
the name of the ship, its official number and its port of registry or the port to which it belongs;
that to the best of the person’s knowledge and belief, the nature and extent of the accident or damage, the probable cause of the accident or damage and the location of the ship.
A person who, being a master, owner, managing owner, representative person or agent, who fails, without reasonable cause, to comply with this section commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of four thousand dollars. Section 146 Merchant Shipping Act, 2024 Page 90 Act 1 of 2024 c
This section applies to all Cayman Islands ships and to all foreign ships carrying passengers between places in the Islands.