6 Resources That Will Get You Ready for Damage Stability

A safe ship without damage stability compliance is like peanut butter without jelly, coffee without creamer, or ham without jam. Okay. That last one didn’t make sense. But you get the point. Damage stability has been one of the buzz word in the maritime industry in last few years. And you’re doing yourself a massive disservice if you don’t take time to understand damage stability. But you already know that. What you might not know, though, is which resource provide what information about damage stability. That is why I’m going to discuss about all the resources related to damage stability. Let us jump in. Damage stability booklet The information provided in damage stability booklet can be divided into three parts Damage control booklet (required for all type of ships) Damage stability calculation (required for tankers) Damage control plan (required for all type of ships) Sometime you may find all this as one booklet called "damage stability booklet". And on some ships, you may find three different booklets titled as above. Let us discuss what information each of these provides. 1) Damage control Plan Damage control plan is required as per SOLAS chapter II-1/Regulation 19. As per this regulation A plan showing clearly for each deck and hold the boundaries of t...