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The complete shipboard fire-fighting syllabus: fire classes and extinguishers, detectors, CO2, sprinklers, fire main, foam, inert gas, fire plans and muster lists.
Fire Safety
Fire Safety Topics
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01
Classes of Fire & Portable Fire Extinguishers on Ships
Fire classes A to D plus electrical, the fire tetrahedron, SOLAS portable-extinguisher rules, and water, foam, CO2 and DCP types — with the pressures, weights and throw ranges surveyors ask for.
02
Ship Fire Detectors: Heat, Smoke & Flame Types
Heat, smoke and flame detectors: where each is fitted, how each works, and the coverage areas, heights and spacings surveyors test you on.
03
CO2 Fixed Fire-Fighting System on Ships
The CO2 fixed system end to end: bottles and regulations, the CO2 room and safeties, quantity calculation and maintenance, and engine-room and purifier fire actions.
04
Ship Sprinkler & Hypermist (Water Mist) Systems
Sprinkler regulation, bulb colours and the full 9-step test — plus hypermist water-mist for machinery spaces, with every pressure and flow.
05
Ship Fire Main & Emergency Fire Pump System
The fire main backbone, main and emergency pumps, hoses, nozzles, hydrant pressures and valves — every figure in one place.
06
Deck Foam & Inert Gas (IG) Systems on Tankers
Foam blanket types and deck-foam rates plus inert gas — flammability limits, scrubber, blowers, deck seal and working flow.
07
Fire Control Plan, Muster List & Flooding Response
Where the fire plan lives, what the muster list must contain under Reg.37, and the engine-room flooding drill — in surveyor-ready words.