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FERRY BOAT SAFETY

The roll-on roll-off type of ferries for cars and trucks may just possibly be an accident waiting to happen! These large ships carry vehicles on the lower deck yet if only a moderate amount of water seeps on to the lower deck it could cause the whole ship to capsize in seconds! To complicate matters, the ferry companies may seem slow to correct potential safety problems possibly due to the high cost of fixing them. Are they blatantly ignoring warnings?

Many, if not most, ferries do not operate under the American flag but are registered to foreign companies which allows them NOT to have to comply with the highest safety standards acknowledged by critics of the ferry boat industry! Critics complain that U.S. ship safety standards are set too low allowing potentially unsafe ferries to continue operations.

If you use a ferry and the seas are a little rough you may be at a much higher risk of the ferry suddenly sinking.

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