The business world is moving towards enhancing quality in the products, services and everything else. As the race for becoming the best in quality among businesses is in top gear, the transport industry is also not left behind. The need for quality voyages is now needed more than ever and the ships with leaking hatch covers are asked to be repaired. Hatch covers can grow a leak due to many reasons. Let’s not go into the details for now. However, there is a cure to these leaks as they can be refilled. But one of the huge tasks apart from refilling the holes on a ship is to find the exact location of the hole so that there wouldn’t be any unnecessary dismantling.

The method of ultrasonic tightness testing of hatch covers has proven to be a very useful method with excellent results. This method has not only proven to be accurate, but has also resulted in the cheapest and the most profitable method. Why we call it the cheapest? The reason for it to be cheapest is that all it takes is a onetime cost of purchasing the device and then the owner or any person from his staff can run the test. It is recommended that every test should be conducted with new batteries or fully charged batteries in case rechargeable batteries are used. How much would it cost huh? There is no need for any other material to be applied during the test as in the case of hose testing water and powerful pumps are needed.

Now to explain the reason for calling it the most profitable method, the tightness of hatch with ultrasound can be checked even with a filled cargo hold. If the cargo holds have been completely filled with goods, there is no need to unload the goods or to delay the tests. The small generator can be placed anywhere in the holds and the hatch covers can be closed. Now run the test without fearing any damage to the goods as the ultrasonic waves are completely harmless. Unlike the hose testing which could never be done with a cargo hold filled with goods, the ultrasonic hatch cover testing saves time and energy that would have been spent in it. Also the time needed for a complete test is not more than just minutes; this means it is also the fastest to be completed successfully. Hence there is no doubt that it is the most profitable method to conduct the tightness test.