Conclusions

 

	The DESSO Project demonstrates that a ship that has a very high survival capacity after a damage and that if she sinks does it without capsizing is possible to design and build with a marginal extra costs
	The upcoming rules, seems not to encourage this. As demonstrated, the EuRoPax 3000 and the DESSO ROPAX, will both satisfy the required index but will behave completely differently in case of a damage
	The lack of focus and transparency of the upcoming rules makes them very difficult to explain to the users, especially in terms of ship’s behaviour after a damage. This must be considered a risk by itself.