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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

This is a ship's 'chain locker,' for anchor chain stowage.

EDIT: I sit corrected. This is not a working chain locker. Someone with knowledge weighs into the thread. See above. Or below. It's in here somewhere.

[–] smithjoe1 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And is super dangerous as the conversation of iron to rust tends to consume the oxygen inside and makes the air unbreathable. This has killed a lot of people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Wow. So in addition to the size, like one link being enough to smash you like a bug... This landlubber was not aware of that.

The remarkably good condition of equipment that lives in such an environment and gets regularly dipped in seawater was noted, however.

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