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If a ship is damaged through a collision or some other accident and is unable to contain the resultant influx of water and it is near a suitable shore, then consideration should be given to beaching the vessel in order to prevent it from sinking and to affect temporary repairs. The most suitable would be a sheltered, gently shelving beach comprising sand or gravel with little or no rocks. If such a decision is taken then the following should be considered:<\/p>\n

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  1. The ideal time to beach the ship would be on the falling tide (ie just after high tide).<\/li>\n
  2. The vessel should be driven slowly onto the beach in order to avoid any further damage and to prevent her from riding too high on the beach.<\/li>\n
  3. It would be preferable to secure her stern with ground tackle (anchor and cable) which could be laid to seaward by a tug or the vessel\u2019s boats. This would keep her from moving further onto the beach and prevent her from turning broadside onto the waves.<\/li>\n
  4. The ballast tanks could also be flooded to settle the ship onto the sand and prevent her from pounding.<\/li>\n
  5. When temporary repairs are completed, she could be refloated at high tide and taken to the nearest repair port.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    If a ship is damaged through a collision or some other accident and is unable to contain the resultant influx of water and it is near a suitable shore, then consideration should be given to beaching the vessel in order to prevent it from sinking and to affect temporary repairs. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,83,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-11-2-seamanship","category-11-2-4-safety-at-sea","category-11-2-4-13-beaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}