Background
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Background

 Experience now indicates that it has not been the usual practice to identify the “angle of flooding" in the grain loading information furnished to the master. Although this information is basic to the calculations which are made to demonstrate compliance with regulation 4(b), it is not readily obtained by direct observation of the types and arrangements of openings above the weather deck on a ship. The following guideline is given to remedy this omission.

Parent topic: 12 Angle of flooding
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