COLUMN LEGALAn Approach for Responding to Marine Casualties Maritime attorney David Russo provides a valuable primer for maritime stakeholders faced with a marine casualty. Because it isn’t a question of if, it is a question of when. Will you be ready?By David E. RussoWhen there is a marine incident, the Alcohol testing must be done, where required, within 2 vessel owner/operator has two risks of hours of the incident; drug testing must be done within 32 exposure: to both civil and criminal hours of the incident. Drug and alcohol testing is required liability. These risks can arise from a for any “serious marine incident” (SMI). The burden is on number of variables, including but not vessel owner to make determination of need for testing. limited to (a.) a pollution event, (b.) a SMI’s are de