Word: groundingsâ
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Dates: during 1977-1977
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...crews and equipment. Liberia, which has no natural harbor, has the world's largest tanker tonnage?with some of its ships American-owned. Such ships and their crews frequently fail to meet adequate safety standards. The Argo Merchant, for example, was involved in 18 "incidents"?including two previous groundings???before the Nantucket disaster. Her captain since June, Georgios Papadopoulos, 43, admitted at a hearing last week that his ship carried no LORAN (long-range navigation) equipment. His gyrocompass, he said, was not being used just prior to the accident because it was six degrees off, and the helmsman...
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