Incidents
America’s America’s Cup Boat Capsizes Hard
by Shrivathsa Sridhar (Reuters) – American Magic’s hopes of challenging Team New Zealand for the America’s Cup were dealt a blow when their yacht “Patriot” capsized on Sunday but the...
2008 Ship Incidents Visulized In Words
The above image is a wordle extraction of the keywords found in this year’s Casualties Report List. The link speaks for itself but to summarize… it’s been a very unsafe year for the average mariner. Please take a moment to understand the magnitude of this year’s statistics and work on ways to make next year’s list considerably shorter.
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