Wiktionary
hull breach
n. (''phrase'') The breaking or puncturing of a ship's surface.
Usage examples of "hull breach".
DeVries both sounded and looked terrified, but he dropped the repair of Bonnys hull breach as ordered and ran for the drop bay.
There was a gasp of life support fans and compressors speeding up to move the air in spite of a hull breach.
Deep Space Nine could survive some torn-up living quarters and even an occasional hull breach, but if the reactors went the entire station would end up as a lifeless, uninhabitable tombstone drifting on the outskirts of the wormhole.