The Coast Guard has recently published NVIC 5-98 which contains International Maritime Organization (IMO) resolution A.849(20) "Code for the Investigation of Marine Casualties and Incidents." For an investigator, the contents of this publication are outstanding. It lists many of the documents which should be requested and obtained by the investigator or attorney handling the case. MAC Home Page readers may click here to download it. When the linked page comes up, scroll down to NVIC 5-98 and then click on PDF on the right side. This file must be read using Adobe Acrobat Reader. The Adobe Acrobat Reader program may be downloaded by clicking here. After you have downloaded the document, in this case, NVIC 5-98, bring up Adobe Acrobat Reader and open the downloaded document in it.