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A large number of accidents and shipwrecks at sea have occurred over the last 20 years, some with catastrophic consequences. Some of the most well known are summarised in Table 146.1.

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  1. Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, University Hospital Umeå, Building 3A – 4th floor, 901 85, Umeå, Sweden

    Helge Brändström

  2. Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2, Canada

    Gordon Giesbrecht

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  1. Maatschappij tot Redding van Drenkelingen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Joost J.L.M. Bierens

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Brändström, H., Giesbrecht, G. (2014). Disasters at Sea. In: Bierens, J. (eds) Drowning. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04253-9_146

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