3. Discussions and comparison with grounding damage data
Fig. 3 shows how the calculated relative damage length ratio varies with tanker
ship lengths in the interval from 100 to 300 m. From the results it can be seen that
for similar conditions the relative damage length of a 240 m tanker is two times that
of a 100 m tanker. This shows that the tanker size has a significant influence on the
relative damage length in accidental grounding. For conventional vessels, where the
speed is mainly governed by the Froude number, the difference is even larger.