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Impact of Watertight Door Regulations on Ship Survivability

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When demonstrating compliance with the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), Chapter II-1 subdivision and damage stability regulations , it is assumed that all watertight doors are closed and the related internal watertight subdivision is 100% effective. Unfortunately, casualty history indicates that this is not always the case. Contributing to this situation are provisions in the SOLAS regulations that permit some watertight doors to remain open or be open for extended periods of time during navigation under certain conditions. This paper provides background information on the SOLAS requirements for watertight doors and discusses whether this regulatory treatment is still appropriate for passenger ships of the future. Originally written in June 2011, an update is included to indicate the latest SOLAS regulatory developments as of June 2017.

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    James Person

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  1. David Taylor Model Basin/Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division, West Bethesda, MD, USA

    Vadim L. Belenky

  2. School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Kostas J. Spyrou

  3. MARIN-Maritime Research Institute Netherlands, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Frans van Walree

  4. Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Marcelo Almeida Santos Neves

  5. Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

    Naoya Umeda

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Person, J. (2019). Impact of Watertight Door Regulations on Ship Survivability. In: Belenky, V., Spyrou, K., van Walree, F., Almeida Santos Neves, M., Umeda, N. (eds) Contemporary Ideas on Ship Stability. Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 119. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00516-0_45

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