About 15 years ago when my company’s British auditors said that we needed a better Fire Fighting manual for the ship’s onboard libraries (Crew, Officers and Department Heads) the auditors complied and sent the copies of a Fire Fighting Manual made in the U.K. Of course while its concepts and strategies were perfectly sound, the equipment and terminology were completely alien. Example in the text regarding the firefighters ensemble there were references to “braces”, which is perfectly correct if you are British, but they are not what you put on your adolescent child’s crooked teeth but what Americans call suspenders. This kind of cultural disconnect went on throughout the supplied manual. I went ahead and found what I thought was an excellent manual "Marine Fire Fighting, 1st Edition, International Fire Service Training Association. They are a branch of Oklahoma State University and all the text was in “American” English and illustrated with the same kind of USCG approved gear that you would find on a U.S. Flag ship. The manual was adopted fleetwide. The next year when I told the British auditor what I had done they replied in their unruffled manner: “No skin off our nose, your company asked for a manual, and we added our ten percent and sent them one!” The manual is still available albeit only in electronic form. https://www.ifsta.org/shop/ebook-marine-fire-fighting-1st/75115
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