Which risk increases when Viking longships use wet rawhide ropes?

💡 Explanation

Longship ropes experience CREEP because wet rawhide loses tensile strength under sustained load; therefore, structural integrity decreases substantially, rather than immediate fiber hydrolysis from a single moisture cycle.

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