[BITList] EMMA MAERSK - E/R Flooding

[HUGH]

Mike,

While I often specified the runs for major cables in ERs as a service to the electrical dept, and to make it easier to determine pipe and vent runs, I treated the cables as objects belonging to somone else, so filled/unfilled was never an issue for me - your mention of it is the first I've ever seen. Whether it mattered to the electricians, I cannot recall. On the Newton, de-gaussing influenced cable runs, and other requirements to do with her main role as a vehicle for underwater noise, etc, detection made it necessary to run the phases in certain configurations. Changes of direction were tricky, so we used a 1:5 model with coloured wire roughly to scale.

Going back to the point, I cannot see any self respecting water queueing up to get along a cable via the few small points of access when there are better, and more direct routes to freedom. The more I read about the Maersk ship in question, the more I'm surprised she ever floated.

Hugh. 
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