Engine Room Flooding

The engine room flooding can take place due to mainly two reasons such as leakage from equipment or system and crack or hole in the ship’s hull because of the collision, for example.

Leakage in the engine room space from machinery or sea/fresh water system can be caused by the failure or cracks in a sea water pump. Sometimes water comes from sea water or fresh water cooler and from boiler feed water system.

Speaking about a ctions to be taken in such situations it should be mentioned that the sooner fault will be found, the better the crew will tackle with an emergency. The defected equipment is to be isolated and other circulating system has to be started. Then the engineer on watch informs chief engineer regarding the leak and follows the instruction from him.

If the engine room flooding arises due to crack in the hull or small hole in the hull, the engine room staff should perform the following actions. At first the size of the leakage should be detected. By all means, the leakage has to be minimized and finally stopped. If the leak is not big enough, then cement box is to be put in place of the leak and repairs are to be done accordingly. Otherwise, the captain has to decide whether the ship is safe place to stay or not and decision for abandoning the ship has to be made. In case of abandon ship signal being announced, the engine room staff should muster to their respective lifeboat and abandon ship operation should be carried out.

1.	regarding	относительно, по отношению к
2.	closing-down	закрытие; прекращение работы
3.	to permit	разрешать
4.	damper	демпфер; гаситель (колебаний)
5.	control box	блок управления
6.	standing instructions	постоянно действующие инструкции
7.	to lay down	размещать
8.	feed water	питательная вода
9.	to arise	возникать, появляться

Exercise 9. Translate the sentences into Russian.

1. Leakage of any ballast water tank in the double bottom of the engine room, leakage from manhole, or crack in the water tank can also lead to engine room flooding.

2. Grounding of ship in shallow areas may cause buckling (искривление, повреждение) in the engine room area where sea water starts to enter the engine room directly or indirectly, it may happen when hull gets ruptured in the way of bilge tank or any other tank causing it to overflow.

3. Collision of the ship with other ship or with berths/jetty in the way of engine room may cause flooding.

4. If the sounding pipe is not of self-closing or the cap is left open, and that particular tank gets filled up and left unnoticed, may lead to flooding of engine room.

5. All members of the technical staff must know all the ship emergency codes in detail, Mr. Skylight, Mr. Mob, Code Blue, and Oscar are some of the ship emergency codes followed by mariners.

6. While ER flooding at sea, it may require shutting down the plant, stopping engines and start emergency generator, shutting the main sea suction valve, to carry out repair works.

7. All members of the crew should receive appropriate training in accordance with their role at the time of emergency.

8. The emergency duties of any crewmember are stated in his individual/personal muster card according to Muster number.

sounding pipe - измерительная трубка (в цистерне)

Exercise 10. Translate the sentences into English.

1. Главный (старший) механик при общесудовой тревоге отвечает за ходовую вахту в машинном отделении и проверяет аварийное оборудование.

2. Второй механик при общесудовой тревоге управляет аварийной партией (группой) машинного отделения и несет ответственность за ее подготовку к борьбе за живучесть судна (damage control).

3. Третий механик при общесудовой тревоге является вахтенным механиком, обеспечивает работу главных и вспомогательных механизмов, пожарных и осушительных насосов.

4. Если на судне нет электромеханика, то при общесудовой тревоге третий механик выполняет их обязанности.

5. Существует пять основных нештатных ситуаций: пожар или взрыв, столкновение, посадка на мель, утечка и человек за бортом.

6. Пожар/Взрыв может возникнуть из-за неверного использования оборудования, самовозгорания (spontaneous combustion), неосторожностью с открытым огнем или курения.

7. Столкновение или посадка на мель происходит из-за отказа механизмов или руля, халатностью при несении вахты или навигационных ошибок.

8. Течь возникает при повреждении корпуса, палубы или люковых закрытий.

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