Yo creo que las escotillas de escape pueden ser un peligro en sí mismas.
Hace un tiempo escribieron en
http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/...way-98023.html
lo siguiente
Hi, all. Some friends of ours, who own a 1993 Privilege 482-S Catamaran by Jeantot, recently went through a harrowing passage from Jamaica to the San Blas Islands -- wind NE 25 kts seas 8-12', on the port quarter. They were about halfway from Jamaica to the San Blas when this happened. They are using the boat as a family cruiser for The Big Voyage with the kids. The mom was at the helm, and one of her kids yelled that water was coming in -- she put it on autopilot and raced in to find a geyser coming into the salon with almost every wave (shooting up into the air), and the lexan gone from the frame of the escape hatch (which then would not stay latched as the lexan provided stability to the part of the frame surrounding it).
En ese caso pudieron arreglarlo, pero en esa misma línea del foro se relatan otros casos similares, así que no es tan infrecuente.