They say the best way to destroy a ship is by creating a hole in it. Since ships can only stay afloat as long as they are leak free and they have less density than the water, as the water enters the ship’s body, it starts increasing the ship’s density and it starts sinking. Hence it becomes impossible to ignore the
Hatch cover maintenance and watertight integrity testing because this testing allows the crew to learn about the location of the holes in the ship’s hatch covers and the body. As the holes are discovered they can be treated and the metal around the holes can be patched with a new sheet to make it watertight once again.
The transport ships have to endure a lot of rough treatment during the loading and unloading of the goods in the cargo holds. The heavy chains scrape the metal body; the forklifts working on the loading and unloading of th
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