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Finding no up-to-date, comprehensive texts on maritime casualties, veteran Merchant Marine officer and lawyer Messer-Bookman wrote her own, which includes the major international conventions that arose from casualties--SOLAS, MARPOL, STCW. With the trend of casualties caused increasingly by human failures rather than equipment malfunctions, she notes that the most common failures are: not cross-checking vessel propositioning information with truly independent systems, over-reliance on electronic information, and overload of information provided by advanced equipment that is working properly. Also, looming in the future, she sees the intentional remote interference with vessel operations. She begins with the RMS Titanic in 1912, because it was the first maritime casualty that prompted the major maritime powers to come together to standardize minimum safety equipment and practices aboard merchant vessels. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
