Fire safety at sea / James Cowley.
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TextPublication details: London : Institute of Marine Engineers, 2002 (2006 printing)Description: 239 p. : illISBN: - 1902536428 (pbk) :
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Begins with safety regulations and SOLAS before dealing with fires and how they start, spread, and are put out. Then covers extinguishing equipment, structural fire protection and automatic detection and sprinkler systems, fire risk in machinery spaces, bunkers and bunkering procedures, and in different types of vessel (tankers, Ro-Ro, passenger, dry cargo etc) and fire risks while vessels are under repair. Concludes with fire safety procedures and drills, and examples of fires and the lessons to be learned from them.
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