Water, Water, Everywhere

摘要

Passenger vessel safety remains one of the most important challenges facing the maritime industry, and flooding remains the highest risk Consequently, much of the dialog within naval architecture revolves around how best to assess vessel damage stability performance and to what level the safety requirement should be set. However, from a design perspective, emphasis is too often placed on how best to use what we already have, instead of focusing on what else could be done to improve safety. As a result, the majority of vessels built today continue to rely on a combination of traditional passive protection measures, most of which have existed for more than a century and are starting to show their age.