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IMO's first task when it came into being in 1959 was to adopt a new version of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), the most important of all treaties dealing with maritime safety. IMO has also developed and adopted international collision regulations and global standards for seafarers, as well as international conventions and codes relating to search and rescue, the facilitation of international maritime traffic, load lines, the carriage of dangerous goods and tonnage measurement.   See More...
 
 
 
 
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World Shark Attacks Decline for Third Year
CNN.Com
29 January 2004
The University of Florida, which houses the International Shark Attack File, said there were 55 unprovoked attacks worldwide, down from 63 reported in 2002 and lower than the previous year's 68 attacks.

Four people were killed, compared to three in 2002, four in 2001 and 11 in the year 2000.

Normally, scientists do not put much stock in year-to-year fluctuations in the number of attacks because they can be affected by such things as the weather and oceanographic conditions that drive bait fish closer to shore.

Full information is available from CNN.Com.

Read more at http://www.cnn.com/2004/ ... own.reut/.
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