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> You said "at any cost". At any cost I buy Lloyds, instruct them to work with my army of engineers until they find a way to satisfy their requirements, and we insure it. That's within the "at any cost" budget you set.

And then buy the IMO and your own country to certify.

> Okay. I'm not seeing the problem with that. You will have to explain to me why does that prevent us from making the vents automatically close at anchor when the boat is capsizing.

There are no automatically closing vents certifiable for human ventilation, so you cannot have an automatically closing vents and just manually cover it when necessary.

> Where do you see the problem with this?

I think the problem is with you, who cannot seem to believe that marine engineering with centuries of experience could have found reasonable trade-offs in the regulations.



> I think the problem is with you, who cannot seem to believe that marine engineering with centuries of experience could have found reasonable trade-offs in the regulations.

You are putting something in my mouth which I did not say. Can it be done? Yes. Physically it can be built. Is it a reasonable trade-off? I don't think so, and I didn't said that it is.




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