Year: 20xx Language: english Author: SIMCO Genre: Guide Format: PDF Quality: Unknown Pages count: >0 Description: Master's Guide for Water Ingress Monitoring Developed by SIMCO Marine Committee The regulations become part of the Safety of Life At Sea (SOLAS) convention and come into force on 1st July 2004. Bulk carriers will be required to carry equipment that will give early warning of water ingress to the hull. For ships that exist at the time of introduction of the new regulations it will be permissible to fit this equipment after the date of coming into force but not later than the first annual, intermediate or renewal survey after that date. Water Ingress Monitoring (WIM) is not a new concept. Masters will recognize that daily monitoring of bilges and tanks has been a feature of prudent seamanship since antiquity. The following pages describe an example WIM system in more detail and how the provision should be used within the ship's Safety Management System. There are many variations in bulk carrier design. Each must be addressed individually. For example some ships do not have lower stools in which detection equipment can be positioned and thereby be well protected. In such cases WIM can be installed in protective tubes alongside existing sounding pipe arrangements.
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Master's Guide for Water Ingress Monitoring
Language: english
Author: SIMCO
Genre: Guide
Format: PDF
Quality: Unknown
Pages count: >0
Description: Master's Guide for Water Ingress Monitoring Developed by SIMCO Marine Committee
The regulations become part of the Safety of Life At Sea (SOLAS) convention and come into force on 1st July 2004. Bulk carriers will be required to carry equipment that will give early warning of water ingress to the hull. For ships that exist at the time of introduction of the new regulations it will be permissible to fit this equipment after the date of coming into force but not later than the first annual, intermediate or renewal survey after that date.
Water Ingress Monitoring (WIM) is not a new concept. Masters will recognize that daily monitoring of bilges and tanks has been a feature of prudent seamanship since antiquity. The following pages describe an example WIM system in more detail and how the provision should be used within the ship's Safety Management System. There are many variations in bulk carrier design. Each must be addressed individually. For example some ships do not have lower stools in which detection equipment can be positioned and thereby be well protected. In such cases WIM can be installed in protective tubes alongside existing sounding pipe arrangements.
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