Do you own a ship or a yacht? If you do, you would be aware of the need for the checking of watertight compartment doors testing. We all know that the ship’s body catches rust easily. No matter how good the materials are used to make a ship, until and unless the paint does not get removed, there is no chance of the ship to catch rust. But this is not possible for a lifetime, even the best kept cars can have their paints removed with the passage of time. And since the ship is exposed to such high humidity, the chances of getting rusty are higher than anywhere else.

Floating on water, traveling many miles during its lifetime, the paint somehow gets peeled off and the metal body gets exposed. The scraping and the bumping of goods, the shoes people wear and many other things cause the paint to peel off from the deck and also other parts of the ship’s body. As soon as the paint gets off from the ship’s body, the humidity starts reacting with it and the rust starts forming. It is not always that rust would need a huge plate to become exposed. Even a molecule that gets exposed would react and rust would be formed. Hence there is no guarantee to the size of the rust that can be present in the ship.

Rusting of a ship is not something out of this world. It can happen any time and can happen to any ship. No matter how old or new the ship may be, once the slightest paint gets peeled off, the rust starts to form instantaneously.  As the rust finds a place in the body to settle down, it soon starts spreading to other parts. Spreading from inside the ship’s body, it soon eats away the metal sheet and a clear hole forms in its place. The hole can be in a place which is not easily traceable. And the damage will be done by it and the owner realizes there is a hole only after the damage has been noticed.

Intense testing is required to ensure that the ship does not have a hole in it. Even the cable transit areas watertight testing is important to ensure that the ship is safe and free from holes. If a hole forms anywhere in the ship’s body, there is a great chance that water will find its way inside the cable ducts and then as it gets the chance, the drops of water will touch the wires and start a spark. The spark can just end there by burning a few wires or it can even cause the entire wiring to get burnt or even worse, it may cause a flame to erupt and the ship would soon be engulfed in flames.