[BITList] EMMA MAERSK - E/R Flooding

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Hugh
if non hygroscopic non wicking cables are not specified once capillary 
action sets in its really surprising the amount of fluid that can  be 
transported along a bundle of cables enough to flood a compartment in a 
relatively short  time its almost like having a fire hose running
frank

On 3/31/2013 3:28 PM, HUGH wrote:
> 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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