If you have ever witnessed or had a boat fire, I think you might have another approach. If you have a ferro-cement or steel hull, or maybe even a wooden one, I think there are some valid points discussed here. If you have a fiberglass boat, you have a minute or two to assess the problem and contain it, maybe less. Generally there is barely time to grab a flotation device and get the hell out. Fiberglass burns extremely hot and fast and gives off a tremendous amount of very toxic black smoke. In most cases, by the time someone realizes that they have a fire, it is already to the stage of being uncontrollable by anything other than automatic suppression. If it is burning in a contained enclosure, cabin, engine room, etc. and you open a door and ventilate it, you have an explosive combustion that is like a somewhat slow explosion of hot, toxic, black smoke and fire. If you are offshore you have to assess the possibilities, if inshore, think escape. It only makes sense to concentrate on prevention, because suppression leaves few options.
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