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BY THE NUMBERS

Benchmarking Domestic Passenger Vessel Safety

Over time, our BY THE NUMBERS entry has gone to to look inwards, the report also concludes that in coun- some interesting places and reported (sometimes) surprising tries enjoying favorable economies, root causes of casu- conclusions supported by the data that we dig up. The topic alties include the failure to enforce existing regulations; for this space doesn’t always readily present itself in a timely suboptimal vessel design, including bridge ergonomics, manner, or in alignment with our editorial calendar. This suboptimal technology informing mariners of real-time month we hit pay dirt with not one, but instead four differ- vessel status, incomplete or less than best-practice safety ent reports that touched upon safety on passenger vessels. training, suboptimal emergency equipment, and most

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