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At 14:13 25/01/2012, you wrote:

>Lots of excellent analysis from the list.
>
>The ship should also be analyzed as to why it couldn't sustain a rip
>in the hull and stay afloat. An excessively high center of gravity
>by design may have compromised the ships stability. Accidents still
>happen even with fail safe devises and well trained crew in place so
>naval architecture needs to keep up to reduce the consequences of
>groundings, collisions, and acts of war .
>
>Greg Rudzinski

Aren't double hulls de rigueur in tankers these days? I guess an
actuary does the sums and figures the cost of putting in a double
hull against the risk of the oil getting out and causing vast amounts
of compensation liability as it spreads itself about. Then there is
the cost putting a double hull in a cruise ship against the
compensation on some people dying if the single hull loses integrity
due to something or other. Hmm, tough one...

Actuary - definition: someone who finds accountancy too exciting.

Geoffrey Kolbe

   

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