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Improving Safety at Sea
| Going to sea has become safer because of disasters
like Titanic. Discover how mariners are warned of
danger and how the shipwrecked are saved. |
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Protecting the Mariner
Governments have seen protecting seafarers and ships as their duty.
Discover how systems like lighthouses, lightships, buoys and the
load line have been put in place to warn mariners of dangers and
how legislation has helped protect them. |
Saving the Shipwrecked
However good the systems for preventing shipwrecks and other
accidents, human errors and the power of the sea ensure that
disasters will always happen. Read how lifesaving equipment and
methods have developed, the success of the Royal National Lifeboat
Institution and how government agencies play their part in saving
the shipwrecked. |
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| Imagine you are the officer on watch when 'Titanic' hit an iceberg. Looking back, what should you have done?
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