Excerpt from Carriage of Goods by Sea Act (Cogsa) And S. 943 and H. R. 2005, the Death on the High Seas Act (Dohsa): Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session; April 21, 1998 Cause Of the accident was result Of the pilot ordering an excessively wide port turn, which caused the ship to strike a reef on the starboard side. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.