while or for as long as

[JACEK1]

Hello everybody!

I would like to ask you if "while" can be replaced by "for as long as".

Flexible hoses may be connected to the circulation 2 while the floating dry-dock is kept out of water (is not flooded, immersed).

Flexible hoses may be connected to the cirkulation 2 for as long as the floating dry-dock is kept out of water (is not flooded, immersed).

What do you think?

To help you, I am sending another sentence.

While the floating dry-dock is submerged/immersed, it is necessary for the hoses to be disconnected.

 

[tedmc]

Yes, they both mean the same thing i.e. for the whole time that in the context. Circulation 2 being the name of a compartment in the vessel should be capitalized.

Submerged and immersed mean different things. The vessel is immersed (allowed to be covered with water) in the dry dock. To submerge is sink something in water out of sight.

 

[JACEK1]

I didn't know that. Thanks.