Maritime incident
Marine accident, maritime disaster or maritime incident refers to a transport accident involving watercrafts.
Writer William Langewiesche, in a 2018 Vanity Fair article, stated a statistic that in every two or three day period, a commercial ship sinks, and usually those ships are characterized by employees who make insufficient wages and companies which do not have sufficient safeguards; he added that the ones that sink are often registered to flag of convenience countries.[1] He stated that maritime incidents often result from multiple factors, just as aviation accidents and incidents do.[1] Langewiesche stated in 2018 that "Disasters at sea do not get the public attention that aviation accidents do, in part because the sea swallows the evidence."[1]
History
The sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912 led to the introduction of SOLAS (Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea).[2]
See also
References
- ^ a b c Langewiesche, William (April 4, 2018). "The Last Words on the Bridge". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2025-12-06. - Alternate URL and title: "“The Clock Is Ticking”: Inside the Worst U.S. Maritime Disaster in Decades"
- ^ "The Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS)". The National Archives (United Kingdom). Retrieved 2025-12-06.
Further reading
- Olsen, Alexander Arnfinn (October 15, 2023). Maritime Accident and Incident Investigation. Routledge. (October 15 for online, October 16 for book versions) - Profile
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