Generally, two different categories of ship grounding may be defined according to the response of the ship and the hull structural components that are involved: “stranding” is dominated by the vertical action of the seabed on the bottom after the ship comes to a complete stop (Alsos and Amdahl [11]), and “powered grounding” is dominated by the horizontal action when the ship runs aground with forward speed (Simonsen and Friis-Hansen [21]). If the ship runs aground on a high-profile rock, the bottom plate can be torn open in a process referred to as “raking” (Thomas [22], Simonsen [7], Zhang [23]). If there is no tearing in the bottom plating, the event is denoted a “sliding” process (Nguyen et al.[24]).