Watertights_Doors

Watertights Doors Watertight Doors The most important engineering feat on an U. S. Naval vessel is its watertight doors. Watertight doors do not move the ship through the water, nor do they act as any sort of weapon and they really do not contribute much to the ships main mission in general, but they can be a very valuable asset when they are needed to be used for what they do. The water tight doors protect the ship and its personnel from sinking and drowning in the case of a flooding casualty, by sectioning of the ship to contain the casualty. Watertight doors seem like a nuisance in everyday life on the ship when you have to bend over and crawl through them time after time, but if a ship were to ever to encounter a situation in which there was flooding you would not consider them to be a nuisance. Watertight doors are designed to section off compartments of a ship so that if there is flooding in one section it does not spread to the rest of the ship thus isolating the casualty. Isolation of the casualty will allow for the crew to hopefully continue to ship, doors, watertight, water, casualty, tight, section, crew, able, very, through, ships, out, mission, flooding, shut, personnel, much, isolation, important, allow, afloat, weapon, time, thus, stay, save, order, open, one, off, nuisance, needed, make, keep