Paddy Rynders has a Bachelor of Science degree in Nautical Studies from the Maritime Institute De Ruyter, Flushing. He has more than a decade of seagoing experience up to the rank of Chief Officer on board heavy lift transport vessels, general cargo vessels, tankers, and coastal vessels. Over the years, Paddy has handled numerous high-profile cases and investigated major claims worldwide in connection with general averages, container losses, fires, oil spillages, cargo claims and collisions and groundings.
Paddy is a registered surveyor (NIVRE), a fire investigator, a trained expert witness for London arbitrations, and a former lecturer at a Dutch Nautical College
Mariner, Fire Investigator
1999; Marine Director since 2006; Fire Investigator since: 2016
All round P&I / liability / cargo matters / nautical investigations
Large general average claims & maritime incidents / casualties
Container collapse investigations
Collision / allision / grounding investigations
Collision Reconstruction and Simulation
Fire Investigation
Lashing & securing
Stability matters
Tanker, Liquid and Gas

Rotterdam
Dutch, English, German