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Deep Sea and Foreign Going Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry that Brings You 90% of Everything

One of the organisations which helps sailors is the network Seafarers’ Welfare Missions, and they need that help. On average, two ships sink a week: two thousand sailors die per year at sea. Men fall off gangways or are crushed between the ship and the quay.

The facts and figures sprinkled throughout Rose George’s new book, Deep Sea and Foreign Going, are on a scale that will stop you in your tracks, much like one of the vast container ships she describes.