This subject is framed among the specific ones of the intensification in naval technology (General Corps). Its objective is to provide specific skills or abilities to carry out the position of Damage Control Officer (S.I.). The S.I. is the set of processes, standards, techniques and material and human means used to prevent, reduce, and correct the effects that, on a ship or its crew, derive from accidents or enemy actions.
The first objective of the course is to ensure that students know and understand everything related to ship stability (hydrostatic and intact and damage stability). As well as the basic concepts related to naval hydrodynamics and seakeeping due to the interaction with external factors such as waves, wind, or currents.
Secondly, the course will enable students to acquire sufficient knowledge of shipbuilding. Thus, they will know the structural elements of the ship, its purpose, behavior, forms of failure and their implications when they occur.
This knowledge will enable future officers to take on roles related to the survivability of surface ships and submarines. In this way, graduates will be able to have naval units ready for combat, to sustain them in combat and to carry out the temporary post-combat repairs necessary to maintain the ship at the highest operational level.
