[submarine571]

That ship should have been buttoned up completely...”MATERIAL CONDITION ZEBRA” It’s the tightest a ship can get and is employed to: PREVENT THE SPREAD OF FIRE” and or flooding.

[snoringbear]

“ That ship should have been buttoned up completely...”MATERIAL CONDITION ZEBRA” It’s the tightest a ship can get and is employed to: PREVENT THE SPREAD OF FIRE” and or flooding.”
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The Navy has not had a good run the past few years. I’m thinking someone’s @$$ is grass over this stupid event.

[Pilsner]

That ship should have been buttoned up completely...”MATERIAL CONDITION ZEBRA” It’s the tightest a ship can get and is employed to: PREVENT THE SPREAD OF FIRE” and or flooding

I'm not a sailor. But when I saw this story, the first thing I thought about was Herman Wouk's (who served on minesweepers in WW2) novel The Caine Mutiny. The USS Caine is sent to San Francisco for an overhaul, and Wouk vividly described the chaotic state of the ship, with the civilian worker's tools, equipment and supplies scatted about, and the ship's own furnishings and material stacked everywhere, because compartments had been emptied for renovation.