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3.11.5 DEATH

If a person dies on a vessel there is not normally a doctor on board able to immediately examine the deceased and determine the probable cause of death. Should the circumstances indicate death by accident or other unnatural causes, a post-mortem examination will almost certainly be required once the body is landed ashore and investigations will be carried out by the local/national police authorities.