How to increase bulkhead strength?

[TorpX]

Originally Posted by ETR3(SS)

What's even sillier is bulkhead is naval jargon for a wall. As in the the vertical pieces of steel that separate the boat into different compartments. If one bulkhead gets destroyed and there is flooding in one compartment, then there is now flooding in two compartments. But it doesn't work like that in game.

That was my understanding of bulkhead, but AFAIK, there are no 'bulkheads' for the ships in the game. So why did the devs put them in? I suppose they had a reason, and it would be nice to know what it was.