[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 46, Volume 7]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 46CFR171.017]

[Page 116]
 
                           TITLE 46--SHIPPING
 
   CHAPTER I--COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 171--SPECIAL RULES PERTAINING TO VESSELS CARRYING PASSENGERS--Table of Contents
 
                           Subpart A--General
 
Sec. 171.017  One and two compartment standards of flooding.

    (a) One compartment standard of flooding. A vessel is designed to a 
one compartment standard of flooding if the margin line is not submerged 
when the total buoyancy between each set of two adjacent main transverse 
watertight bulkheads is lost.
    (b) Two compartment standard of flooding. A vessel is designed to a 
two compartment standard of flooding if the margin line is not submerged 
when the total buoyancy between each set of three adjacent main 
transverse watertight bulkheads is lost.

Subpart B [Reserved]