Ultrasonic Safety & Survey Equipments

Friday, 23 August 2013

Leaks Are Found In Minutes but Repairs Take Longer

When shipping goods to another country it is never easy because you have to ultimately use the sea port for it. In case you live in a city far from the sea port, then you have to use two mediums which are the road transport and then the sea transport. The most frightening ordeal in this entire process is the sea transportation because a lot of goods have been destroyed at sea. The transport ships are often leaking and this creates an unhappy experience for the customers because their precious goods are destroyed without using them. Although the goods being transported are insured but, one cannot afford to digest the horrible news.

The transport ships of today are now extraordinarily large and powerful. They can easily carry a load unimaginable by the ship owners of the past. One giant carrier can easily transport food for the entire country in one go. But despite being such advanced machinery today, its oldest problem is still present which is, the leaking hatch covers. There have been many methods devised since the inception of this industry to find the leaks, but the only modern way present today seems to be the most workable which is checking tightness of hatch with ultrasound.

Today with the help of modern science and engineering techniques the manufacturers have come up with an ultrasonic device which provides one hundred percent accurate result when finding leaks in the ship’s hatch covers. The simple, yet useful device allows the ship’s maintenance staff to identify the damaged areas in a matter of minutes and then it is up to the management to decide if they want to have the repairs done at the same time or would wait for some other time. The leak detecting method is not as lengthy as the repair work. Both of these should not be combined because the device does not take too much time to work, but there is no guarantee how long can it be for the repair works to be completed.

Hatch cover ultrasonic tightness testing is becoming very popular among the ship owners because even if they do not apply the repairs instantaneously, they can learn about the nature and the location of the leak. By it they can decide if the leak is fatal enough to be repaired in an emergency or is it okay to set sail and complete another voyage.

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