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Your vessel has been damaged and is taking on water. Which of the following should be avoided in this situation?

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Your vessel has been damaged and is taking on water. Which of the following should be avoided in this situation?

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• Transverse stability and how metacentric height (GM) affects a damaged vessel's tendency to capsize • Relationship between freeboard, flooding, and reserve buoyancy • What happens to the center of buoyancy (B) when water enters different parts of the hull

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• Think about which change would make your vessel more likely to capsize when already damaged and taking on water: which option makes the vessel more unstable? • Recall: when a vessel heels slightly, how do the center of buoyancy and metacenter move? Which of these movements actually reduces your ability to return upright? • Consider which effect increases the risk of more water coming on deck or through openings, and which effect directly reduces your righting arm (GZ).

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• Compare how lowering the metacenter versus moving the metacenter sideways (transverse shift) affects the righting lever for small angles of heel. • Review how a reduction of freeboard changes reserve buoyancy—does this immediately change stability at small heel, or mainly affect how easily more water can get in? • For lowering the center of buoyancy, recall whether a lower B (with G fixed) usually increases or decreases metacentric height (GM), and what that means for stability.

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Question 1 of 20

Your vessel has been damaged and is taking on water. Which of the following should be avoided in this situation?

A lowering of the metacenter

A reduction of freeboard

A transverse shift of the metacenter

A lowering of the center of buoyancy

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Question 1 of 2066636eec28f7522a1c51d0e1

Your vessel has been damaged and is taking on water. Which of the following should be avoided in this situation?

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Your vessel has been damaged and is taking on water. Which of the following should be avoided in this situation?

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