Damage control is the term used in the Merchant navy, maritime industry and navies for the emergency control of situations that may hazard the sinking of the ship. The term is also used in project management and other contexts to describe the actions needed to deal with any problem that may jeopardize an endeavor. In most seafaring countries, the merchant marine (or merchant navy) is a fleet of ships used for commerce that sometimes complements the navy. ... The multinational Combined Task Force One Five Zero (CTF-150) The British Grand Fleet, the supreme naval force of WW1 A rare occurrence of a 5-country multinational fleet, during Operation Enduring Freedom in the Oman Sea. ... Terminology is the set of all the terms related to a given subject field or discipline. ... Project management is the discipline of defining and achieving targets while optimizing (or just allocating) the use of resources (time, money, people, materials, energy, space, etc) over the course of a project (a set of activities of finite duration). ... Look up Problem in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Maritime examples are:

• rupture of a pipe or hull especially below the waterline,
• damage from grounding (running aground) or hard berthing against a wharf,
• temporary fixing of bomb or explosive damage (navies).

Damage to USS Cole

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• USS Cole (DDG-67): immediate measures to stop sinking after the ship was bombed in 2000.
• USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58): After an Iranian mine holed the frigate beneath the waterline in 1988, the crew fought fire and flooding that threatened to sink it.[1]

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Measures used

Simple measures may stop flooding, such as:

• locking off the damaged area from other ship's compartments;
• blocking the damaged area by wedging a box around a tear in the ship's hull;
• putting a band of thin sheet steel around a tear in a pipe, bound on by clamps;

More complicated measures may be needed if a repair must take the pressure of the ship moving through the water. For example:

• thermal lance cutting around the rupture.
• oxyacetylene or electric arc welding of plates over the rupture.
• quick-drying cement is applied underwater over the rupture.

Damage control training is undertaken by most seafarers, but the engineering staff are most experienced in making lasting repairs. Thermal lance in use. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Oxy-fuel welding and cutting. ... Welding is a joining process that produces coalescence of materials (typically metals or thermoplastics) by heating them to welding temperature, with or without the application of pressure or by the application of pressure alone, and with or without the use of filler material. ... Cement is a material used for bonding other materials together, and as a binder in concrete. ...

Damage control is distinct from firefighting. Firefighter with an axe A firefighter, sometimes still called a fireman though women have increasingly joined firefighting units, is a person who is trained and equipped to put out fires, rescue people and in some areas provide emergency medical services. ...