Pre-planning meeting
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Pre-planning meeting

  4 A pre-planning meeting should occur in advance to co-ordinate the work to be undertaken during the survey which should include, as a minimum, a review of the following information:

  • .1 survey status and basic ship information;

  • .2 survey records from the previous bottom survey;

  • .3 details of any outstanding recommendations or known damaged areas (due to grounding, lightering, etc) that affect or may affect the dry-docking survey;

  • .4 details of any known structural damage previously suffered by the ship;

  • .5 reports of known structural repairs that will be carried out during the dry-docking survey; and

  • .6 details of any additional items to be surveyed, thickness measurements to be taken and known maintenance work that will be carried out during the dry-docking survey.


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