Scientific Determination of Root Causes in Marine Casualties and Equipment Failures
In complex marine incidents, visible damage is only the final expression of a chain of mechanical, structural, or operational events.
KORSO MARITIME conducts forensic technical investigations aimed at determining the true root cause of marine casualties, equipment failures, cargo incidents, and structural damage.
Our work focuses on causation, not just condition.
Every failed component carries technical information.
A bent steel plate reflects load direction and magnitude. A fractured shaft reveals stress concentration and fatigue history. A deformed structure shows how forces travelled through a system.
In forensic investigations, physical damage is interpreted through:
Individual findings rarely explain an incident on their own. Forensic investigation connects them.
As evidence is analyzed, mechanical relationships between components, forces, and movements are identified. These relationships allow the incident to be understood not as isolated damage points, but as part of a single interacting technical system.
This process leads to the development of a scientifically consistent model of the event, where:
The incident is no longer a collection of observations — it becomes a physics-based reconstruction.
Once the technical behavior of the system is understood, the investigation focuses on identifying:
This approach distinguishes between primary cause, contributing factors, and resulting damage, ensuring that responsibility is not assigned based on appearance, but on technical reality.
Contact our forensic team to discuss how our scientific approach can bring definitive conclusions to your maritime technical challenge.
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