The Marine Information for Safety and Law Enforcement (MISLE) is a database system managed and used by the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG). MISLE is used to store data on marine accidents, pollution incidents, search and rescue cases, law enforcement activities, and vessel and facility inspections. You can imagine the knowledge and history residing in MISLE. It’s been around since 2002, and is pre-dated by facility information that was held in the Marine Safety Information System.

Currently, MISLE contains information on over 650,000 U.S. and foreign flagged vessels, including nearly 80,000 Commercial Fishing Vessels, and over 3,400 MTSA regulated facilities. Coast Guard personnel use MISLE to schedule and record operational activities such as vessel boardings, facility inspections, marine casualty investigations, pollution response actions, law enforcement actions, and search and rescue operations. That’s a lot of data! In 2015 alone, the Coast Guard was responsible for conducting 2,432 FSP inspections, and 5,937 MTSA inspections. Each of those activities is captured by a MISLE entry. Good, bad, or ugly, the Coast Guard’s version of your facility’s history is described in the MISLE database.