On the lethal discomfort of being a junior crew member on a luxury cruise: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/cruises/9860808/Five-dead-as-lifeboat-plunges-into-

On the lethal discomfort of being a junior crew member on a luxury cruise: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/cruises/9860808/Five-dead-as-lifeboat-plunges-into-sea-off-British-cruise-ship-in-Canary-Islands.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/cruises/9860808/Five-dead-... This happens again and again, year after year: lifeboat drills actually kill people. Usually low-ranking, low-paid crew members, usually when the lifeboat is being hoisted back up after the deployment drill. The systems are not adequately designed to support this use case, best practices (few or no people on board for drills) are not enforced, and people are dying--perhaps more people than are actually saved by lifeboats. Many more such incidents are catalogued here: http://maritimeaccident.org/categories/lifeboat-accidents/ http://maritimeaccident.org/categories/lifeboat-accidents/