---
kind: "section"
citation: "46 U.S.C. § 6309"
title: "46"
title_heading: "Shipping"
number: "6309"
heading: "Voyage data recorder access"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/46/6309"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Vessels and Seamen"
  - "Part D — Marine Casualties"
  - "Chapter 63 — Investigating Marine Casualties"
---

# §6309. Voyage data recorder access


Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the [Coast Guard](/usc/46/2101.md?p=2) shall have full, concurrent, and timely access to and ability to use voyage data recorder data and audio held by any Federal [agency](/usc/46/101.md) in all marine casualty investigations, regardless of which [agency](/usc/46/101.md) is the investigative lead.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 115–265, title II, § 207(a), Oct. 11, 2018, 132 Stat. 3747.)