Saturday, 13 December 2008

Inside a Ro-Ro ship

If you ever wondered how it looks like inside a Ro-Ro ship, you can have a look down here:

Conventional Ro-Ro tank-top deck


Pure car carrier footage



The event that threw a lot of light on the car deck safety was the tragedy of the "Herald of Free Enterprise" in 1987:




I started sailing on Ro-Ro ships in 2000. All my captains were experienced masters from former Black Sea Oriental Line, old Ro-Ro professionals. They used to say that there is little time to fight for the Ro-Ro ship being flooded, and there is little chance to survive capsizing once the ship has taken water.

In 2008 Naval Architects came to some new solutions:


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