The Sinking of Ro-Ro Ferries

Most ro-ro ferries have a design weakness in that if their car deck gets flooded, the ro-ro ferry can capsize in a few minutes, without allowing an orderly evacuation of the stricken vessel. The video shows a simple invention which helps to overcome this design weakness. The video was made in the year 2000. For the SINKING OF THE ESTONIA, Type in the URL below: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xa8x66_the-sinking-of-the-estoniaanother-v Book Reference: Bird, John & Ross, Carl, "Mechanical Engineering Principles", Newnes, Oxford, UK, 2002.