Japanese damage-control specialists and naval architects proposed sound methods and warned about stability. Their advice competed with pressure to push designs further. Confidence in exceptional crews could encourage officers to accept risks that technical rules were intended to restrain. In this criticism, the problem was the uneven authority of those rules within the navy, despite the presence of people who understood the engineering limits.
Notable Point · 9:30-11:10
Japanese design ambition and the limits of stability
Technical advice on metacentric height competed with confidence that Japanese crews could overcome increasingly demanding design risks.