Ultrasonic Safety & Survey Equipments

Friday, 7 February 2014

Complete Test of Your Ship’s Health with Ultrasonic Testing

Water is meant to let the ship sail on it and not get inside it because if it does, then the results are never desirable but ghastly. Hence there is no denying the importance of hatch cover maintenance and watertight integrity testing of a ship sized small, medium, big or huge. The testing provides you the information about health of the hatch covers and the ship also. It lets you know if there is any need for the ship to go for repairs or the ship can carry on its work for a month or longer. Ships running around with these tests end up in the worst situation unexpectedly and then there is no other option but to see the goods getting destroyed or the ship getting destroyed itself.

In the past there have been incidents where the hatch covers were well protected, but the other areas around it had sprung a leak and the crew was unaware of it. Usually the ship’s deck gets a lot of rough treatment which results in the deck to get heavily damaged. Sometimes it shows on the surface and at times it does not especially when it’s around corners or somewhere hidden. Humidity and water gets easy access to the ship’s interiors and this is even more dangerous than water entering from the hatch covers. Usually the ship’s cable wiring is just below these joints and corners which create the threat of a short circuit. If you want to prevent your ship from a short circuit, then there is no need to take second thoughts but to have the cable transit areas watertight testing done by a professional or by yourself.

There are tools such as the ultrasonic hatch cover which allows even a non professional to conduct the tests. The tutorials are easy enough to understand and a person can perform the perfect test in a number of attempts if not the first one. But if the person has used the device or any ultrasonic testing device before, then understanding the results on the ultrasonic hatch cover tester wouldn’t be an issue at all. There is no limit to what this device can do, if you are in the mood to do watertight compartment doors testing, no problem. The device is designed to detect leaks in any possible place. If you are testing the ship’s doors, hatch covers or even the cable ducts, the ultrasonic device can manage to give you the best results. We all know that the ultrasonic waves are harmless, so if there is a leakage or the surface is wet, the ultrasonic waves will cause no harm but only deliver the results it is intended to.

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