FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedin 10 February marks two hundred years since the birth of Samuel Plimsoll, the great maritime safety campaigner and Member of Parliament who fought for the introduction of the load line that still bears his name. As a book charting the course of his campaign to save lives at sea is reissued to mark the occasion, we spoke to the author, Nicolette Jones, about why his story is still relevant to maritime safety professionals today. RelatedNews WSC: A global regulatory framework is imperative to secure the industry’s transition UK Chamber of Shipping: Safety starts with systems thinking, not just procedures var jnews_module_21308825_0_6a04e61f56466 = {"header_icon":"","first_title":"Related","second_title":"News","url":"","header_type":"heading_8","header_background":"","header_secondary_background":"","header_text_color":"","header_line_color":"","header_accent_color":"","header_filter_category":"","header_filter_author":"","header_filter_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_post_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_tribe_events_cat":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_category":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_tag":"","header_filter_text":"All","sticky_post":false,"sticky_post_filter":false,"post_type":"post","content_type":"all","sponsor":false,"number_post":"2","post_offset":0,"unique_content":"unique1","include_post":"","included_only":false,"exclude_post":"21308825","include_category":"","exclude_category":"","include_author":"","include_tag":"1613,2651","exclude_tag":"","exclude_visited_post":false,"post_tag":"","tribe_events_cat":"","web_story_category":"","web_story_tag":"","sort_by":"latest","show_date":"","date_format":"default","date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","pagination_mode":"disable","pagination_nextprev_showtext":"","pagination_number_post":"2","pagination_scroll_limit":0,"ads_type":"disable","ads_position":1,"ads_random":"","ads_image":"","ads_image_tablet":"","ads_image_phone":"","ads_image_link":"","ads_image_alt":"","ads_image_new_tab":"","google_pub