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Maritime Accident Analytics

Descriptive patterns from the Novatug maritime incidents database

At its last record update on 8 September 2026, the Novatug maritime incident dataset held 433 publicly documented incidents, 176 of them involving a tug. 89 of those tug incidents involved girding or capsizing, and 48 are classified as a capsize caused by girding, with 36 recorded fatalities. These figures describe the records in the Novatug research dataset, not worldwide totals or incidence rates.

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