[image] Two Firefighters Die in Cargo Ship Fire at Port in Newark The vessel, owned by an Italian company, was carrying thousands of vehicles when the blaze broke out.

Uh because you engineers aren’t supposed to be in the ECR. You’re supposed to be out maintaining and rebuilding all that fancy equipment. Then you can go down and back and up and out into the steering gear room. Assuming that fire door is closed!

Think of things that were designed without knowledge or reference to each other: Cars and trucks vs ro-ro or any other ship. Fire departments vs ships. Any of the above for compatibility between countries. So, a ro-ro operator should consider having equipment that works in a variety of ports wit…

[image] PHQ: Think of things that were designed without knowledge or reference to each other: Almost like Class Societies, ISO, NFPA, and so on don’t exist. Someone should create a few organisations dedicated to standardising things. That way I don’t have to build a fire station from the grou…

[image] johnny.dollar: Ahh, perfect timing from the Chief hall monitor. First off, whether or not I’ve sailed on car carriers does not change the behavior of fire and difficulty in extinguishing aboard car carriers. The difference is someone who speaks from experience and versus one who talks…

If 50 cents in th dollar Johnny speaks as he writes I’m sure at some stage his education would have been advanced by the application of a size 13 shoe. The aftermath may have required surgical intervention.

To LI_Domer: New ships, fire departments, vehicles, and containers should indeed be built to sets of world-wide standards that may need to be built in consideration of all interfaces between different types. But, that also means a lot of refitting of existing ships and fire trucks. Making any chang…

[image] johnny.dollar: There is theory, “class certification”, and then real world. I’ll repeat, how many ro-ro ships have been lost in the last 5 years due to fire? Sorry, but I don’t know how many such incidents there have been. However, since you seem to be well-informed, perhaps you could…

[20230716_041635] [20230716_041644] [20230716_041719] Looks like it got hot.

[image] Sirk: I’m more interested in knowing which version of the system was ready for use and what served as a kind of backup? What the procedures were? There was not two versions, it was a standard, SOLAS approved, low-pressure CO2 system. There was a short pipe fitted with a valve that c…

[image] New3M: Uh because you engineers aren’t supposed to be in the ECR. I see what you did there…but you left off: in the heat/noise at 0600 and out at 1930 because “you’re paid a 12hr day”, that somehow turns into 13.5hr?? [image] New3M: Assuming that fire door is closed! LOL, truu…

Two Firefighters Die in Cargo Ship Fire at Port in Newark

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Two Firefighters Die in Cargo Ship Fire at Port in Newark

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