Fatigue and sleep deprivation figure in about half of maritime accidents in the Pacific Northwest and manage to defeat even the most modern wheelhouse technology, experts said at the Pacific Marine Expo in Seattle.
“There is only one solution to sleep deprivation. It’s eight hours of sleep in 24 hours,” said Jerry Dzugan, director of the Alaska Marine Safety Association.
U.S. and Canadian investigators found lack of sleep was a central factor in the October 2016 grounding of the Kirby Offshore...