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The saying goes that today’s marine safety regulations where written in the blood of mariners who sailed before us… but is that statement true? Or is the USCG and IMO forgetting important lessons from the past?
In today’s episode of The REAL gCaptain Podcast we explore historical incident investigations and propose a simple idea for preventing future fatalities at sea.
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