<p>Weve come a long way baby. I look forward to see what the First classmens fire fighting class involves. The Mids are pretty safe on ships these days with all the fire fighting technology and regulations. Fixed CO 2 , a steam extinguishing system, or a fixed foam system for extinguishment of oil fires can be found aboard most ships. SOLAS & NFPA sets the standards for rules on fire protection, fire detection and fire extinction. The NFPA 301book, if not
should be
. laying around in some classroom somewhere to complement their training. The Navy is constantly testing systems & doing cool engineering things. Ive read that older cruise ships all have to be retrofitted with sprinklers by 2009. Thats a gooood thing. We were amazed to see the systems in place aboard one oiler /tanker ship. Nothing like Ive ever seen in the real world. Two stations on the main deck that were enclosed rotating turrets (for lack of a better word) with huge directional hoses for spewing those chemicals. Very cool. Somebody has to know how to work these things so I hope their education moves onto the systems themselves at some point.<br>
Ok. Who just yawned? I heard you.</p>