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Still 14x safer than cars/trucks?
I never would've guessed Ferryboats are pulling those numbers
I can imagine lots of that is people going overboard, falling over and hitting their head, etc, and the fact that far fewer people take ferries than take rail.
They are almost all private operators and lack the close oversight passenger airlines and municipal mass transit are subjected to. Under trained, low wage, poorly maintained, and carrying sometimes in excess of a thousand passengers.
Less people take ferries each year compared to buses, trains, and aircraft but every few years there is a ferry disaster that kills hundreds of people all at once.
Damn - yeah that sounds sketchy as hell.
maybe a mixture of low ridership and drowning?
Well they certainly would be riding low if passengers start drowning.
You get incidents like the MV Sewol once every few years which is like 300+ fatalities over night, then pretty frequent minor sinkings in more calm waters with just a few deaths, and then regular overboards where people just fall in and no one notices.
Looks like this accident was caused by a truck too