| 摘要 |
A system and method for augmenting the stability of a ship comprises providing inflatable buoyancy bags 8 along both sides of the ship, maintaining the bags in a partially inflated state during normal operation of the ship so that leakage can be detected during normal non-emergency conditions, and inflating the bags fully on sensing an emergency situation likely to give rise to reduction in the ships' stability, e.g. the presence of flood water. If leakage is detected in a bag, inflation thereof is prevented as well as that of a corresponding bag on the other side of the ship. The bags are stowed within fairing's 73 which are pivoted outwardly on inflation of the stowed bag. <IMAGE> |
