One point six million people die in car crashes every year. That comes to around 23,000 a week, which is the length of your average cruise. The best reference I could find lists one or two cruise ship sinkings a year, and they had to include ferries to get any sort of numbers. And, most of those incidents resulted in very few deaths: http://www.cruisejunkie.com/Sunk.html
Splashy newsworthy stories scare us, but, they're newsworthy because they are rare occurrences.
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Date: 19/1/12 16:29 (UTC)Splashy newsworthy stories scare us, but, they're newsworthy because they are rare occurrences.