3 Damage control plans
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3 Damage control plans

  3.1 The damage control plan should be of a scale adequate to show clearly the required content of the plan.

  3.2 Isometric drawings are recommended for special purposes. The plan should include inboard profile, plan views of each deck and transverse sections to the extent necessary to show the following:

  • .1 the watertight boundaries of the ship;

  • .2 the locations and arrangements of cross-flooding systems, blow-out plugs and any mechanical means to correct list due to flooding, together with the locations of all valves and remote controls, if any;

  • .3 the locations of all internal watertight closing appliances including, on ro-ro ships, internal ramps or doors acting as extension of the collision bulkhead and their controls and the locations of their local and remote controls, position indicators and alarms. The locations of those watertight closing appliances which are not allowed to be opened during the navigation and of those watertight closing appliances which are allowed to be opened during navigation, according to SOLAS regulation II-1/22.4 should be clearly indicated;

  • .4 the locations of all doors in the shell of the ship, including position indicators, leakage detection and surveillance devices;

  • .5 the locations of all external watertight closing appliances in cargo ships, position indicators and alarms;

  • .6 the locations of all weathertight closing appliances in local subdivision boundaries above the bulkhead deck and on the lowest exposed weather decks, together with locations of controls and position indicators, if applicable; and

  • .7 the locations of all bilge and ballast pumps, their control positions and associated valves.


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