A Heap of Lessons To Learn From Maritime Accidents

Only a minority of serious marine accidents which are properly investigated in a forensic fashion.
In those days, when blame was regarded as more important than causation, it was always somebody’s fault – the guilty party invariably losing his certificate.
Earlier, it was practically a death sentence if the Master had found the watch keeper sitting down on a night watch.
Fast promotion through the ranks caused by shortages is known to be a growing problem, but here writ large, if not...