The biggest concern on board a ship is the safety of the people onboard and the goods that are traveling along. The historic sinking of the Titanic showed the entire world about the intensity of the damage that could occur when a ship gets a hole in it. Although the hole in the ship occurred due to a massive blow from an iceberg and today the ships modern navigation system allows it to detect such bergs before time. But this does not mean that the modern ship never develops a hole in it. Holes occur all around the year and they are constantly detected and then refilled. It is an ongoing process but the damages that happen due to these holes are too great and that is why the need to find the hole before it starts inflicting damage has become necessary.

The biggest damage occurring on a transport ship is when the hatch covers leak. As the hatch covers are huge and are possibly the largest lids on the planet, if they start leaking the damage ... Read more »