During a ship’s lifetime microorganisms, plants, algae, or animals will gather in its hull, during a process called hull fouling. These organisms can negatively affect a ship’s operation. However, there is a solution and is called antifouling.
Previously, ships cleaned from organic seams by hand, with the help of special scrapers. Otherwise, the vessel could quickly rot and let flow.
How do ships hull protect today?Today there are several types of paint that do not give living organisms to...