Bureau d'Enquêtes sur les Événements de Mer ('Marine Accident Investigation Office'), known as BEAmer, is the French agency that investigates accidents and incidents of ships. Its head office is in the Grande Arche Sud (South) in the La Défense business district and the commune of Puteaux, Hauts-de-Seine, in the Paris metropolitan area.

History

France established BEAmer, a marine casualties investigation board, on 16 December 1997. In 2003 and 2004 the agency's role within the framework of the French government was finalized.

Governance

The director since May 2019 is rear admiral François-Xavier Rubin de Cervens, (Administrator for Maritime Affairs). Merchant marine Captain and chief engineer. Its head office was previously in in Puteaux and La Défense, and before that, in the in Puteaux and La Défense. In the past the head office was in the 5th arrondissement of Paris.