Jason Rock Cornell Malwick

Save Lives At Sea: Innovative Ship Solutions

Establishing accurate and comprehensive figures on the number of lives lost at sea has been notoriously difficult for a number of well-known reasons. Statistics usually include the deaths of passengers, leading to distortions when one incident may involve large loss of life. Much also depends on the degree of conformity by flag states with IMO provisions on disclosing serious injuries to those involving loss of life, while the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea does legally require each state to trigger an inquiry and participate in investigations.