With the climbing expenses of ship yards and docks, ship managers and supervisors can no more afford to let their ship stay in a rented space for a prolonged time. Since for maintenance tasks a ship has to remain out of work, checking for the leaks in hatch covers using the old methods would cost a fortune only to have the ship stay afloat in a rented space. The hatch covers are giant sized steel covers that act as a lid on the open areas of a ship, most commonly they are the ceiling to the cargo holds. Typically they are the ones that seal the cargo hold of a boat securing what's kept inside from the climate and water.
To figure out if the spread would endure the voyage without releasing,
hatch cover maintenance and watertight integrity testing is directed which according to the old manual technique includes the chalk and water hose testing. In this technique w
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