Voie d'eau

20:24 May 9, 2011 

je n'egret rien

20:18 May 9, 2011 

And I thought the opposite of ingress was outgress. Egrets are birds!

12:31 May 9, 2011 

Hey Graham,
After a couple of years in maritime insurance in the City of Londinium, "water ingress" was absolutely standard for cargo vessels and passenger liners. Ditto after years of translating yacht survey reports for British insurers.
However, less formal contexts, written or not, would certainly use "leak", some survey reports would too if written in a less formal style.
We are lacking the benefit of full context!

12:12 May 9, 2011 

What's the matter, rating?
The ship's sinking, sir!
You don't mean... we're suffering copious amounts of water ingress?
Yes, sir!
Crikey, better egress ship.

10:01 May 9, 2011 

but I don't know if it's in the Scrabble dico! http://www.scotsman.com/news/New-slang-terms-added-to.676491...

14:57 May 7, 2011 

What context?
The reason I do not go a bundle on "hull breach" is that stricto sensu, the original refers to water entering the vessel (what) not the cause (how).
To reply to Drmanu49, of coruse the hull is involved, but again, I would suggest that at this stage we should not suggest how as the original does not. The difference is subtl, but I hope you see what I am getting at. Taking a yacht for example, awhereas a hull breach or leak suggests a physical hole in the hull, water could of course be coming on baord through delamination, keel bolts coming lose, a seal no longer being watertight, any number of possible ways in fact, none of them strictly being a breach in the hull. See what I mean?