Two Ships

Two Erroneous, Commonly Cited Examples of "Swordfish" Piercing Wooden Ships

Varicella at sea: a two-year study on cruise ships.

BACKGROUND Being highly contagious by person-to-person transmission, varicella can easily spread within the multinational population of a cruise ship and into communities ashore. The aim of the study was to report the prevalence of varicella infections in a fleet of cruise ships during a two-year period and to discuss measures to prevent and contain shipboard outbreaks. MATERIAL AND METHODS A...

Working with alarms on ships ICT work on ships

Alarm indicators are a very simple and important user interface for many control tasks, and are known to be problematic. Alarms on ships have increased in number and importance. Recent incidents such as Savannah Express, Aquitaine and others have identified a number of important issues in the way that alarm systems support safe and effective work. The state of alarm systems onboard is inconsist...

Dynamic Positioning of Ships

A nonlinear control design study Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Technische Universiteit Delft, op gezag van de Rector Magnificus prof. The cover design is done by Fay van leeuwen: [email protected] Printed in The Netherlands by Wöhmann Print Service iii I want to dedicate this piece of work to my late father Dil Kabeer who realized the value of education for his ...

Safety of Nuclear Ships

Economics and energy aspects of food irradiation were also discussed. Disinfestation of bulk grain, of bagged flour, preservation (radunzation) of packaged beef cuis and salmonella elimination from (radicidation of) poultry with electron accelerators, using electron beams or X-rays, were computed to be economically feasible and competitive. Deiailed analyses of the energy requirements of food p...