One of the most important but neglected safety measure of a ship of any kind and type is the cable transit areas watertight testing. As the ship spends its life on the water, many areas get rusted and so do the ducts carrying the cables to all the important areas of the ship or a boat. Rust is one of the greatest enemies of a ship’s body and it can easily eat away the metal of the ship creating holes and clear visible cracks in it. These are the entry points for water and it can easily make a ship sink or at least turn turtle. Consider the position of a transport ship carrying tons of weight and goods worth billions of dollars. If it turns turtle or sinks, the loss would be enormous and too great to repay. Similarly if the cable ducts that are not tended allow water to infiltrate inside and there are some naked points inside, the water would cause a short circuit or create a leakage point which would send electricity all over the ship. This would be a very dangerous situation as the s ... Read more »