A ladder led up to a watertight hatch and the deck.

Overhead and out of reach was an insulated, watertight hatch.

About fifty feet down the corridor beyond them, the watertight hatch had been sealed.

The watertight hatch was down and dogged into place.

At the end of the cylinder was an oval door like the watertight hatch on a submarine.

Only a recessed peephole in the watertight hatch suggested that this door might be different from any other.

"The watertight hatches on the decks immediately above and below the breach have all been sealed.

Eyes tearing, Glushko pushed open the watertight hatch and staggered into the corridor outside.

The lower watertight hatch was closed, of course, and would be opened only after the flooded sail trunk was pumped dry.

The men from the first platoon opened the hatch to the huge escape trunk, the metal sphere with watertight hatches at the side and top.

Eventually, the city assumed maintenance responsibility for the tunnels, and watertight hatches were installed at the river crossings.

A watertight hatch covered the main deck overhead, sealing in a stale smell of fish and brine.

Keebes led the way up the ladder to the middle level and aft, to a large watertight hatch that led through a long tunnel.

Sailors scurried onto the deck to secure all watertight hatches, and Captain Leighton suddenly appeared among them.

Forty seconds had passed, and all reports were to the bridge except for the damage-control people, who were still checking all watertight hatches.

One consequence was that all subsequent Royal Navy submarines were equipped with a watertight hatch at the bottom of the conning tower.

The nucleus fire party was a group of damage-control specialists who normally responded to fire reorts when the ship's watertight hatches were not closed.

Murphy walked forward through the reactor compartment shielded tunnel and through the massive watertight hatch to the forward compartment.

Helmsmen cast members are also able to unlock the watertight hatches via levers in the sail, which is done each time the boat arrives to dock.

Both forward and aft buoyancy compartments are fitted with large watertight hatches and this provides ample stowage space for cruising.

The sailors hastily retreated through the watertight hatches into the passageways beyond with many backward glances at Admiral Parker, who watched them go impassively.

'Hunley' was equipped with two watertight hatches, one forward and one aft, atop two conning towers with small portholes.

There was a simple ingenious safety OFF switch, using a magnet that connected two electrical terminals across a point, located close by the engine's surface watertight hatch.

This combination allows a crew member to leave the submarine by climbing up onto the trunk, securing the watertight hatch below and then flooding the entire cylinder apart from a small air space.

The bulkhead at the site of the explosion was warped so that the watertight hatch between the engineroom and No. 8 fireroom could not be shut, and both compartments immediately flooded.