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This chapter attempts to provide a brief historical overview of how the demands for increased safety, in combination with advances in computing hardware and software, have resulted in changes to the regulatory framework governing damage stability.
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Marchioness- Bowbelle Formal Investigation http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nobanner/20141008142043/http://assets.dft.gov.uk/marchioness-bowbelle.org.uk/index.htm.
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Scott, A. (2019). Issues Related to Damage Stability. In: Belenky, V., Spyrou, K., van Walree, F., Almeida Santos Neves, M., Umeda, N. (eds) Contemporary Ideas on Ship Stability. Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 119. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00516-0_42
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