The Astounding Rate of Liveaboard Deaths

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A recent bachelor thesis by Jussus Schiszler, a student at the Institute of Shipbuilding and Maritime Technology in Kiel, Germany, catalogs and analyzes more than 30 diving liveaboard losses between September 2006 and November 2023, most of which have been previously reported in Undercurrent. It makes grim reading.

The thesis emphasizes that none of these liveaboards conformed to SOLAS (Safety of Life at Sea) regulations developed by the International Maritime Organization, which regulates international maritime shipping worldwide. Most diving liveaboards avoid these regulations because they are licensed to operate only within a limited range in their home country, where regulation is often lax, at best....

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