international standards that there were enough life boats after a series of fires in the 1980d and 199 0s it became international standards that there were fire alarms in every room. >> mike bruno is chairman of the marine board at the national research council. >> what should change as a result of this disaster. >> i think there will be a close look at both manning and training of passenger vessels as a result of this. >> since 2005100 million people have taken cruise vacations. >> it's a statistic cruise ships are one of the safest ways to travel. >> if you look at ship wide incidents by which i mean fires turbulence caused by bad waves storms. we have had less than 30 deaths by these same types of events that we saw on the concordia. >> no matter how safe the cruising industry must contend with the heartbreaking stories coming from the tuscan coast and