Running a leaking ship is just equal to running a risky business or gambling with your reputation and money. The transport industry is under heavy fire from critics who are mostly former customers of this industry and have lost their valuable consignments to the leaking hatch covers of the transport ships. Ships that have no hatch cover maintenance and watertight integrity testing are mostly the culprits which are responsible for letting the image of the industry down. Due to the ignorance of these ship’s owners and crew, these ships let the goods get destroyed by water during their voyages.

In many cases it has not only been the customer who lost valuables due to the leaking hatch covers and leaking body parts in a ship, even the ship owners have had to wash their hands from their precious ship which either blew up, caught fire and sunk to the lowest depths of the oceans. It happens when the water starts entering from the leaks without control. In many cases water has entered the cables of the ship which are its nervous system. Entering these cables, the water caused a short circuit and blew up everything. Observing these issues, it became necessary to keep a check on the cables and the cable transit areas watertight testing became obvious. This helps protect the nervous system of the ship and keeps it safe from any kind of damage and short circuit as long as the ship is being used and is making voyages.

Apart from the hatch covers, there are many other moving components on the ship and they also catch rust and spring leaks. Topping the list are the compartment doors which are a huge problem to the ships because when they spring a leak, there is no stopping of the water entering the compartments. When water starts entering the compartments it starts increasing the weight of the ship. If water enters the ship without control, it can clearly disrupt the balance of the ship and there is a great chance that the ship might tilt and turn turtle. Since a transport ship carries immense weight, tilting it can be deadly resulting in not only a loss to the ship, but every person onboard and everything it carries. This is the reason why the watertight compartment doors testing have become very important so that there is no chance of the water entering the compartments and endangering its balance and well being.