Marine accident, maritime disaster or maritime incident refers to a transport accident involving watercrafts.
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Writer William Langewiesche, in a 2018 Vanity Fair article, stated a statistic that in every two or three day period, a commercial ship sinks, and usually those ships are characterized by employees who make insufficient wages and companies which do not have sufficient safeguards; he added that the ones that sink are often registered to flag of convenience countries. [1] He stated that maritime incidents often result from multiple factors, just as aviation accidents and incidents do. [1] Langewiesche stated in 2018 that "Disasters at sea do not get the public attention that aviation accidents do, in part because the sea swallows the evidence." [1]
