Braemar Group websites
Group
www.braemarplc.com
Shipbroking
www.braemarseascope.com
Technical
www.braemar.com (Divisional site)
www.braemarfalconer.com
www.braemarsteege.com
www.braemarsa.com (Braemar incorporating The Salvage Association)
www.wavespec.com
Logistics
www.cory.co.uk
Environmental
www.braemarhowells.com
Master Mariners
M S Choi
Master Mariner
Mobile: +82 (0)16 833 7996
Email: busan@braemar.com
Profile: Eight years experience on bulk carriers, container vessels and car carriers. Seventeen years marine surveyor and adjuster for P&I and H&M claims. Specialising in loading heavy lift and project specific cargoes. Languages: English, Korean.
CV available on request

David Cope
Principal Surveyor
Mobile: +86 1377 444 6394
Email: shanghai@braemar.com
Profile: Master Mariner: Degree in Nautical Studies, and member of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects. Seventeen years seagoing experience and thirty years experience as a marine casualty investigator and surveyor, including hull and machinery damage surveys, project cargo and towage approval surveys for world-wide delivery, loading and voyage approval surveys, new-building and repair shipyard risk surveys.

Brian Cushing
Marine Manager-Europe
Mobile: +44 (0)7710 054 645
Email: brian.cushing@braemar.com
Profile: Sea service on general cargo, palletised and container vessels, bulk carriers, passenger ships and ice breakers. Cargo claims, casualty and technical investigation, dock damage and personal injury on behalf of P&I and legal interests. Expert witness at arbitration and court.
Jeff Dickinson
Master Mariner
Tel: +44 (0)20 191 423 3782
Mobile: +44 (0)7710 927 905
Email: jeff.dickinson@braemar.com
Profile: Seagoing twenty seven years, ten years master tankers & bulk carriers. twenty years marine surveyor. Extensive survey experience - P&I condition, C/P disputes, performance analysis, cargo damage, grounding, collision, expert witness.
Lyubomir Djambazov
P&I Services Manager-Eastern Europe
Mobile: +359 886 800 137
Email: lyubomir.djambazov@braemar.com
Profile: Master Mariner: Nine years seagoing experience on general cargo, Ro-Ro and container vessels. Experience in warranty and towage surveys, hull and cargo damage surveys, on and off hire and condition surveys.
David Duffield
P&I Services Manager-Western Europe & Africa
Mobile: +44 (0)7703 200 736
Email: david.duffield@braemar.com
Profile: Master Mariner: Seventeen years sea experience, bulk, general, car, reefers & LPG vessels, twenty three years surveying, oil/chemical/LPG Q&Q, P&I condition, hull/cargo, on/off hire, shore salvage recovery management.
Capt. Rodger Foden
Manager & Principal Surveyor
Mobile: +971 (0)50 551 6890
Email: rodger.foden@braemar.com
Profile: Master Mariner with over 29 years as surveyor with BMT/ Salvage Association in England and in the Middle East, and prior, 15 years at sea including AHTS Master. Damage surveys and casualty investigation. Warranty surveys including towages, dredge movements, project load-outs and float-offs, mooring approvals and shipyard audits. Condition surveys and cargo damage surveys. Extensive salvage and heavy lift experience.

Richard Gayton
Regional Director - Americas
Mobile: +1 212 587 9302
Email: richard.gayton@braemar.com
Profile: A Master Mariner with eighteen years seagoing experience, five years with a leading P&I Club managing their survey progamme and eleven years as a marine casualty investigator and surveyor, including hull and machinery damage surveys, salvage surveys, project cargo and towage approval surveys for world-wide delivery, loading and voyage approval surveys, new-building and repair shipyard risk surveys and expert witness.
Stephen Hawthorne
Master Mariner
Mobile: +65 9661 7356
Email: stephen.hawthorne@braemar.com
Profile: Has nineteen years experience in the marine industry. Holder of a South African Foreign Going Masters Certificate. Has experience in the oil industry and holds a dangerous cargo endorsement for both oil and chemical vessels. He has spent time in the North Sea on EERV's and working in the towage / construction industry driving multicats. Steve also has experience in P&I surveys, Hull & Machinery surveys, Condition surveys, towage approvals and a variety of cargo related surveys.

Geoff Holland
P&I Services Manager-Americas
Mobile: +1 514 944 0861
Email: geoff.holland@braemar.com
Profile: Master Mariner: Port captain, project mariner offshore, DP specialist, collision damage, marine audits, warranty, towage, salvage, H&M, P&I surveys. Twenty years at sea on general cargo, reefer, container, tanker, AHTS and DP sub-sea construction vessels.

Chris A Jenkins
Staff Surveyor
Mobile: +1 678 925 8662
Email: chris.jenkins@braemar.com
Profile: Marine Surveyor based in Atlanta, GA, with over 10 years of experience in all areas of marine cargo work, including coverage analysis, loss adjusting & investigation, salvage & loss mitigation and associated claims. He holds a BBA Diploma in Risk Management & Insurance and an Associate in Marine Insurance Management (AMIM) Designation. He was a senior marine claims examiner with both a major underwriter and third party claims administrator. Chris also undertakes condition & damage surveys on all types of cargos for owners’, underwriters’, and third party interests, the majority being containerized cargo.

Michael Laurie
Master Mariner
Mobile: +44 (0)7769 712 555
Email: michael.laurie@braemar.com
Profile: Extensive surveyor experience; cargo and liability casualties; knowledge of cargoes, including refrigerated, meat, heavy lifts, commodities and dangerous goods; warranty surveys of project cargoes; various types of risk assessments.
CV available on request
Kofi Micah
Master Mariner
Mobile: +233 (0)542 522 386
Email: kofi.micah@braemar.com
Profile: Master Mariner: Twenty two years seagoing experience, seven years command on petroleum and vegetable tankers, dry bulk carriers and container vessels. Marine Superintendent for coastal tankers. Experience in Condition, Warranty, Hull and Cargo damage survey, Marine Casualty investigations. Maritime Administration Surveyor.
Wayne Alves da Silva Neves
Master Mariner
Mobile: +971 (0)50 450 8441
Email: wayne.neves@braemar.com
Profile: Holder of a South African Master Mariners Foreign Going Certificate with sixteen years seagoing experience on a variety of vessels including Crude Oil tankers, General cargo Ships and Multi purpose vessels Teu/pax/livestock/general).
Pedro Nunes
Nautical Officer/Naval Architect
Mobile: +351 91 946 5816
Email: pedro.nunes@braemar.com
Profile: Five years seagoing experience in chemical tankers, LPG carriers, container ships, cement carriers and Ro-Ro vessels, four years as Superintendent, DPA and Company Security Officer, four years as exclusive Class Surveyor. Experienced with hull and machinery damage investigation, ISM and ISPS development and implementation. Fully conversant in Classification Society Rules and approvals. Languages: Portuguese, English, French.

Sven Polter
Master Mariner
Mobile: +971 (0)50 654 1455
Email: sven.polter@braemar.com
Profile: Fifteen years seagoing experience as Deck Officer on general cargo, heavy lift, bulk, reefer, container, polar supply, salvage and offshore supply vessels. Three years command experience on fisheries research and protection vessels.

Marx Quebral
Senior Consultant Master Mariner
Mobile: +65 9834 2202
Email: mquebral@braemar.com
Profile: Holding a Class 1 Foreign Going Master’s Certificate, Marx spent a total of 12 years at sea, 3 years as Master and spent 4 years ashore as a superintendent and training manager. He has conducted hull and cargo damage and personnel injury investigations for P&I Clubs including grounding and collision damage. He has served as Special Hull Representative in a major salvage operation and represented the Underwriters in major hull damage repairs. With seagoing and management experience in crude, chemical and products carriers, his specialist roles include accident/incident investigation and root cause analysis, ISM/ISPS and ISO9001/14001 Internal auditing and ISPS/BMP3 implementation.
Yavor Raynov
Cargo Surveyor
Mobile: +359 886 005 154
Email: yavor.raynov@braemar.com
Profile: Master Degree from Naval Academy Varna, Bulgaria. Three years experience in cargo handling of general cargo and oil products.
Capt. Bobby Surendra
Master Mariner
Mobile: +1 504 259 3643
Email: bstechmar@bellsouth.net
Profile: Master Mariner -Twenty years sea experience, and more than fifteen years port captain/ surveying experience on bulk carriers, containers vessels, reefer ships, and oil tankers. Represented several P&I Clubs and H&M underwriters on casualty surveys. Accepted as expert witness in U.S. Admiralty Courts.

Peter Tayler
Master Mariner
Mobile: +44 (0)773 332 1141
Email: peter.tayler@braemar.com
Profile: Sixteen years seagoing experience, bulk, car carriers, chemical and oil tankers. Twenty three years surveying, oil / chemical Q&Q, P&I condition, hull/cargo, on/off hire, pre-purchase, general condition.

Ramachandran Vadivelu
Master Mariner
Mobile: + 65 9624 6903
Email: rama.vadivelu@braemar.com
Profile: With a certificate of Competency Class 1, a diploma in Nautical Studies, and a post graduate diploma in Marine Insurances, Rama has 19 years seagoing experience including time on Container vessels and Crude Oil Tankers. As a marine consultant/surveyor Rama has extensive experience in P&I and H&M Casualty Investigations as well as P&I and H&M Condition Surveys, Marine Warranty Surveys including loading, securing and towage approvals, suitability surveys, On/Off Hire, Pre-purchase Surveys, Sea-trial / delivery condition surveys.

Jonathan Wanliss
Master Mariner
Mobile: +27 (0)79 899 2434
Email: jonathan.wanliss@braemar.com
Profile: Fourteen years seagoing experience on wide variety of vessels. Two years command experience on an icebreaker. Extensive seagoing experience in South Atlantic and Antarctic Oceans.
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