“Navy officials say human remains have since been found in sealed compartments on board the ship...”
In what sort of sealed compartments on a destroyer would sailors normally be?
Sealed from which side?
They would normally be in one, but I would think that after your ship gets rammed by a 600 foot long container vessel, the crumbled steel bulkheads no longer allow doors to work as they did before the colliosion.
All compartments can be sealed to prevent sinking.
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The way I'm reading is that these sailors were in spaces where damage control crews had to seal hatches and scuttles in order to prevent excessive flooding in berthing or possibly engineering spaces, from the picture I saw.
Video will help to explain hatches. As soon as the ship sets condition ZEBRA the hatches are sealed to maintain a watertight integrity. Any damaged portion of the ship should be sealed from the other compartments. It is not known what condition the ship was at while in transit. Obviously it didn’t sink so they maintained integrity. Whoever was behind a sealed compartment that flooded is most likely one of the ten casualties. Once condition zebra is set you must get permission from Damage Control to pass through any watertight doors.
S.O.P. for hull breech is to seal off areas affected by the breech for loss-prevention. All areas of naval vessels are divided into compartments which can be sealed off in the event of a loss of hull integrity by water-tight doors.
When entering port ship sets sea&anchor detail. Typical to set a higher level of watertight door settings during those evolutions. X-ray was normal steaming, yankee was modified higher level, zebra was for general quarters. We ran yankee at sea and anchor I’ve heard some commands do different. There are always some sealed spaces onboard.
All of them if a collision alarm was heeded.