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FIREFIGHTING & PREVENTION

Demonstration Fire & Rescue Boat

Designed and manufactured for ? re? ghting and rescue applications, a new ? reboat will be used to showcase the capabilities and craftsmanship of Silver Ships and its suppliers, whose parts and components enhance the mission-ready abilities of the new vessel. Silver Ships said it had tried to put as many capabilities as possible into this

AM800 ? re boat, its best-selling boat model.

The vessel is equipped with a center console

EMT station and Darley ? re pump, and is out? t- ted for missions that include dewatering sinking boats, ? ghting ? res, providing medical treatment, search & rescue operations, and evacuations. The demo boat features a Wing In? atables collar and twin 250 HP Evinrude outboards that allow the

Silver Ships vessel to reach speeds of more than 50 knots.

Electronic systems installed by Raymarine pro- pletely from marine-grade 316 stainless steel. The vide the necessary navigation technology, while

Slimline Fire Damper is available in 56 standard safety accessories such as FELL Marine’s remote off-the-shelf sizes up to 46.75 inches square 300 sq kill switch and Life Cell Marine Safety’s throw- cm in order to accommodate a vessel’s ductwork able personal ? otation device and ditch combo kit or to mate up to a particular size of rough open- help protect passengers and crew during missions. ing. This gives extremely fast turnaround times for

Seats from Ullman Dynamics and boat matting prompt delivery to builders and re? t yards glob- supplied by Viconic Defense protect operators ally and the turnkey ? re damper is ready to install from injuries caused by impacts at sea.

on board a vessel on delivery. Each damper comes

The new ? reboat has a 26-foot 7.92 meter long with a CE-approved fail-safe electric actuator 24- hull, an overall length of 32 feet, 8 inches 9.96 me- 240 VAC or 24-125 VDC, as well as an integrated ters and an overall width of 9 feet, 7 inches 2.92 electro-thermal tripping device and test switch. meters.

These come completely wired up on a separate

The demo boat will travel throughout the year bracket and are ready for installation and power. with the Silver Ships team on a JDCI/Boatmaster

Other features of the new ? re damper include trailer, making multiple stops at trade shows for an extremely durable design, a patented locking vessel tours and test drives, and will be on show mechanism that only engages during a ? re event, at the SEAFC Annual Leadership Conference in a resettable thermal tripping device, dry contact

Fireboy-Xintex

Montgomery, Alabama from June 25-29 this year.

outputs for open/close readouts, and a full A-60 www.silverships.com class rating for use in either bulkhead or overhead applications.

www.deltatsystems.com

Vid System for Safe Tank Inspection

Zistos Corporation has launched its new Zistos 3M Novec 1230 Fire Protection 40X Tank & Hold Inspection System designed to

Fire suppression systems for use in marine ap- perform a safe visual inspection of the interior of plications are based on a range of chemical agents a large tank or hold in a vessel for hygienic condi- that includes carbon dioxide, HFC-227ea FM- tions, foreign objects, cracks and corrosion.

200TM and 3MTM NovecTM 1230 Fire Pro-

To perform an inspection, this specially con? g- tection Fluid. HFC-227ea and 3M Novec 1230 ured video pole camera system is inserted into a are clean agents that are safe to use in occupied hatch and horizontal stabilizer rods span the hatch spaces, and ? re detection and suppression systems area, allowing the pole camera to stay situated supplier Fireboy-Xintex is now offering pre-engi- without the need for the operator to support its po- neered automatic and manual clean-agent ? xed- sition. The system allows all areas of the tanker suppression systems based on both HFC-227ea interior to be visually assessed for problems with- and 3M Novec 1230 at up to 4,000 cubic feet ap- out an inspector having to enter a con? ned space.

prox. 115 cubic meters and engineered systems up

The system utilizes a self-illuminating, high- to 17,500 cubic feet approx. 495 cubic meters.

powered 40X zoom camera positioned on the end

Zistos 3M Novec 1230 is the ‘agent of the future’ and of a telescoping pole that can rotate through 360°. will eventually replace HFC-227ea as it has little

Images are viewed on a 5.6” LCD display with environmental impact and, at the right concentra- built-in DVR that can record video or still images tions, is as effective as HFC-227ea in extinguish- for documentation. ing ? res. Further bene? ts of 3M Novec 1230 are

Further information: www.zistos.com that it is a clean agent with very low global warm- ing potential GWP <1; it has low toxicity when used in a properly designed system, with no harm

Fire Damper to personnel; it will not damage sensitive equip-

Delta T Systems has introduced its new A-60 ment in any way; it is not targeted for emission re- rated Slimline Fire Damper, which has been de- duction or phase-out; and it comes with a 3MTM signed speci? cally to meet the needs of modern

Blue SkyTM warranty that guarantees 20 years of boat builders. This patented and USCG/MED ap- environmental regulatory compliance.

proved damper is the narrowest on the market at www.? reboy-xintex.com only 4.25 inches 108 mm deep and is made com-

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