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Damage Control System (OK)
Damage Control System (OK)
Damage Control System (OK)
Damage Control –
Procedure that helps
reduce the harmful effects of
impairment to the ship.
1. Control flooding
2. Segregate activities of personnel
3. Provide underwater protection by
means of tanks and voids.
WATERTIGHT INTEGRITY
1. Bulkhead
– a traverse or
longitudinal
partition that
separate
WATERTIGHT INTEGRITY
Watertight bulkhead:
a. Heavier metal than ordinary bulkhead.
b. Some area unpierced except with
watertight door or piping and wiring.
Collision Bulkhead:
a. Designed to protect flooding
through the ship.
b. Bow collision bulkhead is the first
transverse bulkhead aft of the
stern.
c. The last transverse bulkhead aft is the
collision bulkhead that protects the
after part of the ship.
WATERTIGHT INTEGRITY
Doors and Hatches:
Enclosures for bulkhead opening. They are
constructed such they will be as structurally strong as
the bulkhead where they are installed.
1. Watertight doors
a. Used in watertight bulkhead
on second deck and below.
b. Designed to resist 1 ½ times
as much pressure as the
bulkhead it services.
c. Has 6 to 12 dogs for securing.
WATERTIGHT INTEGRITY
2. Non-watertight Doors
a. Used on non-watertight
bulkheads.
b. Usually they have fewer
dogs than watertight doors and are
NON WATERTIGHT DOOR
made of dogs which require
individual protection.
1. Gasket
a. Made of rubber installed on
doors and hatches.
b. Close against knife edges to
form a water tight fitting and form air
and gas tight fitting.
c. Must be kept free of dirt and
grease.
WATERTIGHT INTEGRITY
2. Knife edges
a. Built out from decks
and bulkheads.
b. Gasket on watertight doors
and hatches close on knife
edges.
3. Dogs and Pins
a. Pins – are used to connect
dogs to the deck or bulkheads.
b. Dogs – are used to make
closure.
MATERIAL CONDITION OF
READINESS
MATERIAL CONDITION OF
READINESS
Material Condition of
Readiness –
refers to the degree of
access and systems of
closure to limit the
extent of damage.
MATERIAL CONDITION OF
READINESS
Condition X-Ray – Set when
x enemy is improbable.
a. Provide less protection
aboardship.
b. Set when no any danger attack
from enemy.
x
c. X-Ray fittings close when not
in use.
d. Set and maintained by division
responsible for the operation of
the ship.
MATERIAL CONDITION OF
READINESS
Y
Condition Yoke – Set when enemy is probable.
a. Provide more protection than
condition X-ray.
b. Set and maintained.
(1) When the ship is anchored in
unprotected port during wartime.
x (2) At sea during wartime.
(3) Leaving/entering port during peacetime.
(4) At any other time during outside regular
working hours.
MATERIAL CONDITION OF
READINESS
Y
c. X-ray and Yoke are
fittings to be closed during
condition Yoke.
d. Set and maintain by
division responsible for
cleaning and maintaining the
space in which such
x
Fire
Collision
Enemy Action
Grounding
Weather
safety precaution
GENERAL SAFETY PRECAUTION
3. Static Electricity:
Static Electricity is
produced when gasoline or
similar flammable liquids flow
through hose, poured from one
receptacle to another passed thru
a filter or even splashed around a
can. Enough static electricity can
accumulate to cause a spark
which can result in fire and
explosion.
GENERAL SAFETY PRECAUTION
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