Overview
This dossier contains confidential records for Captain Rhiannon Cade.
Material is provisional, cross-referenced from recovered files, protected records, and field notes.
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Maritime Evidence Dossier
Captain Rhiannon Cade
Subject: Captain Rhiannon Cade
FORMAL SAFETY INTERVIEW RECORD
SUBJECT: Captain Rhiannon Cade
CLASSIFICATION: OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE // SAFETY INVESTIGATION
REFERENCE: CONTROLLED COPY // COT/MARINE/2035/CTC032
Document control
CASE REFERENCE: COT/MARINE/2035/CTC032
SUBJECT: Captain Rhiannon Cade
CENTRAL RECORD: COTE8FEB15DD791E
RANK / APPOINTMENT: Captain
ORGANISATION: Civilian emergency maritime service
VESSEL / POSTING: MV Solace
DATE OF BIRTH: 1993-02-24
PLACE / NATIONALITY: Cardiff, Wales, British / Welsh name; exact origin not locked
INTERVIEW STATUS: Witness / account holder
LOCATION: Secure interview suite — location withheld
DATE: 19 September 2035
LEAD AUTHORITY: Marine Accident Investigation Branch
RECORDING MEDIA: Two sealed digital masters and one independent evidential hash
DISTRIBUTION: Named recipients only. No automated onward distribution.
NOTE: Handling notice. This document contains operational, personal and evidential material. It may be read only by a person with both the required clearance and a recorded need to know. Extraction of images, transcript segments or metadata creates a new controlled copy.
Identity and visual evidence control
VISUAL ASSET STATUS: Passport image: attached; dossier image frames available: 3; surveillance frames available: 0; identity match: matched by subject/asset map.
Reason for interview or reconstruction
This record concerns the subject's knowledge of events, communications and decisions under active investigation. The scope of this record is confined to the matters set out above and to evidence formally introduced during the session.
Preliminary investigator note
The subject was cooperative on chronology and guarded on attribution. Answers became more exact when the interviewers distinguished direct observation from later analysis.
Recorded interview transcript
LEAD INSPECTOR: State your full name for the record.
CAPTAIN RHIANNON CADE: Captain Rhiannon Cade
LEAD INSPECTOR: Do you understand the status of this interview and the limits placed on distribution?
CAPTAIN RHIANNON CADE: I understand. My agreement to answer does not waive any objection already entered into the record.
LEAD INSPECTOR: Have you been offered the representation, legal advice or staff support applicable to this procedure?
CAPTAIN RHIANNON CADE: Yes. I am proceeding under the conditions already stated.
DOCUMENTARY EXHIBIT D-01 Retained extract: Investigators retained a record concerning the retained record concerning Captain Rhiannon Cade.
LEAD INSPECTOR: Do you accept that this extract accurately records an event in which you were involved?
CAPTAIN RHIANNON CADE: At the time I acted on what the bridge could physically verify, not on what a later system said I ought to have known. If the original is no longer available, that absence should remain part of your finding.
LEAD INSPECTOR: What did you understand at that moment, before later analysis supplied a larger explanation?
CAPTAIN RHIANNON CADE: That is the order as I remember it. The machinery and the later summary are separate questions. The missing interval matters more than the wording placed around it afterwards.
DOCUMENTARY EXHIBIT D-02 Retained extract: Investigators retained a record concerning the retained record concerning Captain Rhiannon Cade.
LEAD INSPECTOR: Do you accept that this extract accurately records an event in which you were involved?
CAPTAIN RHIANNON CADE: I accept the event. I do not accept the conclusion you have attached to it. Check the physical record against the unprocessed record before you accept the later label.
LEAD INSPECTOR: Who else was physically present and capable of confirming your account without relying on the same electronic record?
CAPTAIN RHIANNON CADE: That is the order as I remember it. The machinery and the later summary are separate questions. If the original is no longer available, that absence should remain part of your finding.
LEAD INSPECTOR: Are you saying the official record is wrong?
CAPTAIN RHIANNON CADE: I am saying you should preserve the contradiction instead of choosing the tidier version.
DOCUMENTARY EXHIBIT D-03 Retained extract: Investigators retained a record concerning the retained record concerning Captain Rhiannon Cade.
LEAD INSPECTOR: Do you accept that this extract accurately records an event in which you were involved?
CAPTAIN RHIANNON CADE: You are asking for certainty that did not exist on the deck. I can give you the decision and the reason for it. If the original is no longer available, that absence should remain part of your finding.
LEAD INSPECTOR: Why was the matter not escalated through the ordinary reporting route?
CAPTAIN RHIANNON CADE: That is the order as I remember it. The machinery and the later summary are separate questions. the person who held the contemporaneous log can confirm the sequence, but not necessarily the interpretation.
[Exhibit S-01 introduced. Subject permitted to inspect the displayed copy without handling the source medium.]
LEAD INSPECTOR: Do you identify the person shown as yourself?
CAPTAIN RHIANNON CADE: I identify myself in the frame. I cannot authenticate the date from the crop alone.
LEAD INSPECTOR: Can you establish the location or date from anything visible in the frame?
CAPTAIN RHIANNON CADE: The location is supportable from the surroundings. The purpose you are implying is not.
LEAD INSPECTOR: Were you aware that the image was being made?
CAPTAIN RHIANNON CADE: I was not aware of the camera at the time shown.
LEAD INSPECTOR: Who had advance knowledge of your presence at that location?
CAPTAIN RHIANNON CADE: That depends on whether the source is an official system, a copied feed or a separate observer.
LEAD INSPECTOR: What does this image prove, and what does it not prove?
CAPTAIN RHIANNON CADE: Preserve the frames before and after it. A single image is a fact about light, not a complete account of conduct.
[Exhibit S-02 introduced. Subject permitted to inspect the displayed copy without handling the source medium.]
LEAD INSPECTOR: Do you identify the person shown as yourself?
CAPTAIN RHIANNON CADE: I identify myself in the frame. I cannot authenticate the date from the crop alone.
LEAD INSPECTOR: Can you establish the location or date from anything visible in the frame?
CAPTAIN RHIANNON CADE: The location is supportable from the surroundings. The purpose you are implying is not.
LEAD INSPECTOR: Were you aware that the image was being made?
CAPTAIN RHIANNON CADE: I was not aware of the camera at the time shown.
LEAD INSPECTOR: Who had advance knowledge of your presence at that location?
CAPTAIN RHIANNON CADE: That depends on whether the source is an official system, a copied feed or a separate observer.
LEAD INSPECTOR: What does this image prove, and what does it not prove?
CAPTAIN RHIANNON CADE: Preserve the frames before and after it. A single image is a fact about light, not a complete account of conduct.
[Exhibit S-03 introduced. Subject permitted to inspect the displayed copy without handling the source medium.]
LEAD INSPECTOR: Do you identify the person shown as yourself?
CAPTAIN RHIANNON CADE: I identify myself in the frame. I cannot authenticate the date from the crop alone.
LEAD INSPECTOR: Can you establish the location or date from anything visible in the frame?
CAPTAIN RHIANNON CADE: The location is supportable from the surroundings. The purpose you are implying is not.
LEAD INSPECTOR: Were you aware that the image was being made?
CAPTAIN RHIANNON CADE: I was not aware of the camera at the time shown.
LEAD INSPECTOR: Who had advance knowledge of your presence at that location?
CAPTAIN RHIANNON CADE: That depends on whether the source is an official system, a copied feed or a separate observer.
LEAD INSPECTOR: What does this image prove, and what does it not prove?
CAPTAIN RHIANNON CADE: Preserve the frames before and after it. A single image is a fact about light, not a complete account of conduct.
LEAD INSPECTOR: Is there any material fact you have withheld because you consider this recording or its distribution unsafe?
CAPTAIN RHIANNON CADE: I have withheld attribution, not the physical event.
LEAD INSPECTOR: What is the single next action this investigation should take?
CAPTAIN RHIANNON CADE: Find the first system that accepted an answer without asking who had authority to give it.
LEAD INSPECTOR: Do you wish to add or correct anything before the recording is suspended?
CAPTAIN RHIANNON CADE: Yes. Do not improve the certainty of my answers in the written summary.
[Recording suspended. Source media sealed. Any resumed session requires a new opening declaration and exhibit schedule.]
Confidential investigator assessment
The subject repeatedly separated instrument output from physical observation. That distinction is supported by known discrepancies in the retained material and should be preserved in any summary.
Actions and inconsistencies outstanding
- Recover acquisition authority, original-resolution files and adjacent frames for every surveillance exhibit.
NOTE: Finding limit. Nothing in this record establishes guilt, operational direction or final causation unless expressly stated as a supported finding. A valid credential, image or system entry proves only what that item can independently support.
LEAD INSPECTOR — sealed electronic signature held separately
Evidence custodian — receipt and hash recorded
END OF CONTROLLED RECORD — CTC-032