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| I made one case study by following the events around a particularly violent storm on January 18, 2007 in the Netherlands.\\ | I made one case study by following the events around a particularly violent storm on January 18, 2007 in the Netherlands.\\ | ||
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| * Disease: this secondary effect of bad weather conditions is in third place. Because not all medicine falls into this category. | * Disease: this secondary effect of bad weather conditions is in third place. Because not all medicine falls into this category. | ||
| * Drowning: and other water related risks are very big business for offshore and recreational purposes. | * Drowning: and other water related risks are very big business for offshore and recreational purposes. | ||
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| + | From my research into survival engineering it became apparent that there are some areas of design that produce particularly attractive objects: | ||
| + | * Designs that offer protection to the head or part of the face, especially the nose. | ||
| + | * Things that offer escape from large structures. | ||
| + | * Off-shore safety devices. | ||
| + | * Tools for signaling and navigation. | ||
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