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Never Delay a Tightness Test of Cables or Hatch Covers
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 ship could easily catch fire and turn into a huge fiery skeleton. Everything on board would be destroyed by the fire and humans may also be lost in it. Hence it is an inevitable safety measure that should not be ignored.
Other than the cables, the transport ships need to keep a check on their hatch covers too. These covers are the greatest lids available today. Sealing huge cargo holds from the outside climate and atmosphere, they are necessary on every ship and they should always be leak proof. Hatch cover maintenance and watertight integrity testing is a method to search for leaks in the hatch covers. Since there aren’t too many visible cracks on the hatch covers, they need to be hunted and using the ultrasonic hatch cover tester for the cause is a safe and speedy method. Using the device, a single person can run the test and save the company from funding a huge amount in conducting the tests.
If the hatch covers are leak proof and free from any kind of cracks and holes, the goods underneath them would remain safe from every kind of water damage during the voyage. If the goods are damaged, there are chances that the damage may not be miniscule and the shipping company would end up paying a large sum in the form of claims against water damage to the clients who had booked their goods on that freighter.
