I didn't look at the PDF, but the sample size reported in the article is 11 ships(!), which makes me wonder how this might look across a larger population of ships.
I wonder how much labor expense has to be saved to make up for a future catastrophic event?
Internalize gains, externalizing cost of events or accidents.
11 might be a larger share of ships worldwide than you'd expect. The complete list of US-flagged privately-owned merchant ships is less than 200:
https://www.maritime.dot.gov/sites/marad.dot.gov/files/2025-...