French Marine Accident Investigation Office

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.

[1] France established BEAmer, a marine casualties investigation board,[2] on 16 December 1997.

[2] The director since May 2019 is rear admiral François-Xavier Rubin de Cervens, (Administrator for Maritime Affairs).

Its head office was previously in Tour Pascal B [fr] in Puteaux and La Défense,[4] and before that, in the Tour Voltaire [fr] in Puteaux and La Défense.

BEAmer has been headquartered in La Défense , seen in this image. Its current head office is the Grande Arche (centre) while it had been previously based in the Tour Pascal B [ fr ] (to the far left of the Grande Arche) and Tour Voltaire [ fr ]