[BITList] Fwd: Cable Penetrations Almost Did In The EMMA MAERSK | gCaptain âs" Maritime & Offshore News

[HUGH]

Mike,

I read: " .... non-effective cable penetration sealings and some undesirable 
properties of the bilge system and the emergency bilge suction from the 
engine room."

Every cable penetration seal in an ER (not what we called them, but never 
mind) I recall was contained in a structure with clamps. They didn't leak. 
When I sat my 2nd's Orals, Mr Slater refrained from asking me about 
undesirable properties of bilge systems, and I didn't bone up on them, so 
what are they?

A ship is built to Classification Rules, or it is not - the Rules permit no 
experimentation with undesirable properties. So was the Emma Maersk buggered 
about after she was delivered?

Hugh.