watertight compartment in English
noun
1
any of the sections with intervening watertight partitions into which the interior of a large ship is now usually divided for safety.
The frigates have a double-skinned hull divided by ten bulkheads into watertight compartments .
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1. Fifteen other sailors were seriously wounded, and four more were trapped in a watertight compartment for 60 hours.