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Damage control training is undertaken by most seafarers, but the engineering staff are most experienced in making lasting repairs.
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More complicated measures may be needed if a repair must take the pressure of the ship moving through the water. For example:
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is shown temporarily beached and burning after being hit by Japanese bombs and torpedoes on December 7, 1941.
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beneath the waterline in 1988, the crew fought fire and flooding that threatened to sink it.
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putting a band of thin sheet steel around a tear in a pipe, bound on by clamps.
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blocking the damaged area by wedging a box around a tear in the ship's hull,
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A United States Navy damage controlman practices pipe-patching techniques.
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is the emergency control of situations that may cause the sinking of a
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Emergency management of situations which may cause the loss of a ship
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damage from grounding (running aground) or hard berthing against a
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locking off the damaged area from other ship's compartments;
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