New Book: Ship Squat and Interaction

Witherby Seamanship International has just published Ship Squat and Interaction. Originally considered as two books, this has been published as a single consolidated volume, part one covering Ship Squat and part two Interaction.

The phenomena of both Ship Squat and Interaction are a major concern for the handling of ships, particularly when ships are operating in shallow waters. Ship Squat can be defined as ‘the decrease in underkeel clearance as a ship moves forward after being static’, this book aims to give a more thorough understanding of these conditions, based on the authors work in this particular area since completing his PhD on the subject in the early 1970s.