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Originally Posted by Dreadnought
Question for you in reference to the leak. Since they are not mentioning exactly where I would assume that these are the outter wing tanks that are causing the leak?
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That would be a safe assumption. Provided of course if the leak is in the SIDE shell plating. If in the bottom plating it could be one of the inboard tanks. THAT would be hard to repair.
If in the side plating and above the turn of the bilge, a cofferdam can be built to allow sandblasters and welders down there to do the outside repairs. But if in the bottom plating, though a cofferdam would be used, it could only be accessed by divers. And the bottom of the ship is near one atmosphere depth which would probably require some decompression time.