On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 13:42:03 -0400, you wrote: It might be better to outfit yourself with breathing air (like firefighters do with an SCBA which is NOT the same as SCUBA for underwater) instead of supplying the air to the fire. This will not help you see necessarily, but you could use CO2 to blow the smoke away instead of blowing it away with air. > >If there is enough oxygen to enable me to breathe whilst I extinguish the >fire, there will be enough oxygen to enable the fire to burn. > >In order to put out an ER fire by starving it of oxygen, as they do on the big >ships, requires an air-tight ER and a large CO2 system to flood the ER and >drive all the oxygen out. Even then, it doesn't always work all that well. >I am from the Darth Vader school of defense, as in when the Death Star was >being attacked by the Rebels and Vader leaped into his fighter to personally >defend his ship. > I don't know that there is really going to be a GOOD solution to this. But if you have a CO and/or smoke and/or heat detector in the engine room that might be a better way to go to detect the fire before the smoke got too dense to see. Also you need to really evaluate what there is in the engine room that will burn. Since the basic boat is ferro-cement, it wouldn't be the same kind of problem as a fiberglass boat, and the engine itself isn't going to burn.
As for smoke - you might be able to get the kind of smoke tubes that are used for detecting air leaks in ventilation systems. It is apt to be irritating though so you might need a respirator to use it. >Norm >S/V Bandersnatch >Lying Julington Creek >30 07.695N 081 38.484W > >Isn't air (especially O2 one of the 3 legs of the fire triangle? Wouldn't it >be better to cut off all the air instead of introducing more? Curious as I am >always intrigued by Norm's ideas. >Noel _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
