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All ships should have adequate stability in all their operating conditions. This statement sounds almost too obvious and simple to deserve a serious consideration, but it raises two important questions: firstly, what is stability; and secondly how do we define ‘adequate’? We cannot even begin to answer the second until we have answered the former.
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Lee, B.S. (2019). Statical Stability at Small Heel Angles. In: Hydrostatics and Stability of Marine Vehicles. Springer Series on Naval Architecture, Marine Engineering, Shipbuilding and Shipping, vol 7. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2682-0_6
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