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Historically, in the maritime world, after large-scale catastrophes, lessons have been learned and improvements to the ships and shipping safety have been implemented. For over a 100 years this has taken place by investigation of accident causes and has resulted mainly in carrying out technical improvements to ships.
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Stoop, J., Heikkilä, M. (2014). Marine Accident Investigations: Towards Safety Investigations. In: Bierens, J. (eds) Drowning. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04253-9_191
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