the decade: Review of


2010-2019 The year 2010


At the start of 2010, IIMS published a Strategic Plan for the five years up to 2015. Many of the objectives have been met with the addition of new membership benefits, more education, training, conferences and enhanced international recognition.


That year, the Deepwater Horizon accident was as brutal as they come. In April 2010, while drilling at


Events that shaped IIMS, the ship and boating world in the 2010s


As we welcomed in 2020 - a new decade – just a couple of months ago with renewed hope and optimism for the marine world and surveying profession in particular, The Report Magazine takes a whistle stop tour back into the 2010s. We review some of the things that shaped not only our profession and institute, but also the shipping and boating world using the Report Magazine’s archives as the initial resource.


the Macondo Prospect, a blowout caused an explosion on the rig that killed 11 crewmen and ignited a fireball visible from 40 miles (64 km) away. The fire was inextinguishable and after two days the Horizon sank, leaving the well gushing at the seabed and causing the largest oil spill to ever occur in US waters.


In May 2010, the late Tony McGrail FIIMS penned an article for the Report Magazine about the varying standards of report writing amongst yacht and small craft surveyors. He questioned the overall quality, referring to some he had seen as ‘downright incompetent’. Ten years on the quality of report writing


continues to vary and remains a deep source of concern for the industry and something IIMS continues to grapple with and train surveyors on.


Peter Morgan took up the post of IIMS President in 2010, succeeding Capt Allen Brink.


The IIMS India Branch was formed in 2010 during a two-day conference that took place at The Ramada Hotel, Powl, Mumbai.


In association with STET, IIMS arranged a successful and well attended conference held in Singapore.


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