ON-BOARD chivalry is pretty much dead,
according to a group of Swedish scientists
who have published an analysis of 18
maritime disasters, involving 15,000
passengers and crew, over the last 300 years.
Their most disturbing finding was that
rather than “women and children first,” it
appears that females fared worse than men
on board - while children had the lowest
survival rate of all.
The study was published in Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences this week,
with researchers Mikael Elinder and Oscar
Erixson finding that the so-called “Birkenhead
drill” in which ...
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