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IAMI Europe History:
In 1990 I became a member of NAMI (National Association of
Marine Investigators) in the USA and the first member from
Europe. Soon after my colleague Peter Clark from C Claims
England also became a member of NAMI. Together we started to
work for a European ‘NAMI' or rather an International
Association of Marine Investigators (IAMI). Initially it was not
easy to get Europeans to join us in the USA as NAMI was very
much a US based organization. In 1994 at the NAMI annual
training seminar in Boston, Massachusetts the president of NAMI,
Larry Ross and the board of directors announced that NAMI should
become ‘IAMI' (International Association of Marine
Investigators). This was because the Board recognized that NAMI
had quite a few members outside the USA. At the 1994 training
seminar the International team included delegates from
Venezuela, England, Germany and Sweden. NAMI had in effect
really become IAMI.
IAMI Europe started in 1996 and held its first annual
training seminar in Southampton, UK 1998. Peter Clark from C
Claims England hosted and arranged the whole conference and
there were about 60 delegates attending. Ever since then IAMI
Europe has worked to increase its membership. Every year since
1996 we have had a training seminar and these have been held all
over Europe including the following locations:
- 1998 Southampton, England
- 1999 Copenhagen, Denmark
- 2000 Southampton, England
- 2001 Hamburg, Germany
- 2002 Nieuwpoort, Belgium
- 2003 Golf Juan, Nice, France
- 2004 Liege, Belgium
- 2005 Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany
- 2006 Stockholm, Sweden
- 2007 Lignano, Italy
- 2008 Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- 2009 Portschach, Austria
In 1999 the President and the secretary/treasurer of IAMI
from the USA attended the European conference and it was a real honour.
Ever since the President of IAMI has attended each year and
every second year the first vice president also attends the
European conference.
We try to spread our training seminars all over Europe so we
can reach more delegates. During the last years we had an
attendance of between 60 – 90 delegates each year.
IAMI Europe steering committee started its work in 2001.
Until then Peter Clark and Martin Aberg together with Peter
Siegfried, MCS, Germany took care of all arrangements.
IAMI has always had very good support from the Law
Enforcement community and indeed it is a tribute to all the hard
work put in by the committee of IAMI which has brought
representatives from all over Europe together, enabling far
greater International collaboration.
Martin Aberg
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