Update of the casualty rates in SAMSON

The casualty rates in SAMSON are used to assess the risk level based on the maritime traffic and a description of the environment in terms of traffic measures (like TSS and VTS), water depths, coastlines, platforms and other objects under different circumstances (wind, visibility and current). SAMSON makes it possible to predict the casualty level in areas where not enough casualties have occurred in the past to relate traffic with potential new objects, like for example a wind farm, in order to predict the risk level. The casualty database. This report describes the analysis of the world-wide casualty database fro 1990-2002 in order to extract trends that can be used to keep the casualty rates in SAMSON up to date.