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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Resolutions - Maritime Safety Committee - Resolution MSC.362(92) – Revised Recommendation on a Standard Method for Evaluating Cross-Flooding Arrangements – (Adopted on 14 June 2013) - Annex – Revised Recommendation on a Standard Method for Evaluating Cross-Flooding Arrangements - 3 Air pipe venting criteria -

  3.1 In arrangements where the total air pipe sectional area is 10 per cent or more of the cross-flooding sectional area, the restrictive effect of any air back pressure may be neglected in the cross-flooding calculations. The air pipe sectional area should be taken as the minimum or the net sectional area of any automatic closing devices, if that is less.

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