Again an interesting point. SOLAS 2009 is highly demanding in terms of progressive flooding analysis. It is a big job now for designers/ship...
You raise an interesting question. Devil is in the details, as usual. With probabilistic rules it's not a matter of devil but only opacity......
If we assume heel only = 10° , simple geometry shows that it gives 0,70-0,8 m distance from vertical to ship's sides at 4,00 m draught , which may...
You are right, we must at time assume that the vessel is supposed to comply with SOLAS with 2 compartments standard. We also must question...
Considerable job already carried out, congratulations. Hope to see first results of damage stability results shortly...but I kow it is still a...
I have tried to extract from EU Goalds Damage Stability Research site the attached info which is related to a cruise vessel a little bit bigger...
Thank you Jehardiman for your answer. I confess the matter is fascinating. I don't confuse attained and required index, believe me ! Prior...
Sorry, gentlemen and gentlewomen, I missed to include my comment in post #193... I wanted to thank Smartbight (post #181). Obviously, there...
There's room for improvements. We NAs know that all these newer 'resort' cruise ships meet all the class and solas standards and requirements if...
You are right and your statement is very interesting, in particular when you mention the arbitrary way of establishing the basis for "equivalence"...
There is some assumption on the damage length in SOLAS 1974 (deterministic rules), but which should be considered in conjunction with compartment...
Starboard propeller. Fixed pitch, 5 blades. Inward turning (counter CW). Port propeller is therefore CW. Demonstrates that general info...
I would like to extend posts 153 and 159 which are very interesting. I don't want to dispute the causal origin of the "Costa Concordia"...
This kind of commentary is just nothing else than pure demagogy. This "columnist" should not be proud of this. You may find German and British...
Guillermo, The metacentric height GM for this kind of vessel is approx. GM = 2,40 m (full load) as a minimum. The reason for this high GM is...
I beg your pardon for my gobbledegook in my last post , § 2 ; please read : 2) with twin propeller arrangement, you have always one propeller...
Hello Janneke, You did a considerable research job ! But be careful with different things: 1) pods are completely different compared...
In USA Travel quoted by Annex in post 788 there is following statement from Prof. D.Vassalos. First time I see some reaction from one of the most...
Thank you BPL and Annex for site references quoted (posts 787 and 788). They are providing some fundamental informations. The pictures of...
Hello Sir, You are certainly right... But it seems that sometime the "Solas 90" calculations lead to a "2 compartments standard" for similar...
