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From Titanic To Costa Concordia — A Century Of Lessons Not Learned, Jens-Uwe Schröder-Hinrichs, Erik Hollnagel, Michael Baldauf
From Titanic To Costa Concordia — A Century Of Lessons Not Learned, Jens-Uwe Schröder-Hinrichs, Erik Hollnagel, Michael Baldauf
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The recent foundering of the Costa Concordia in January 2012 demonstrated
that accidents can occur even with ships that are considered masterpieces of
modern technology and despite more than 100 years of regulatory and technological
progress in maritime safety. The purpose of this paper is, however, not to speculate
about the concrete causes of the Costa Concordia accident, but rather to consider
some human and organizational factors that were present in the Costa Concordia
accident as well as in the foundering of the Titanic a century ago, and which can be
found in many other maritime accidents over the years. …