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Originally Posted by Mr. Sandman
Thanks,
As for the Fire exting. mounted where it is...I was boarded (USCG) and when they were looking at the engine room they said they wanted to see an extinguisher mounted IN the engine compartment. He said it was large enough to be consider more of an engine room. If you look closely at the reg for comm fishing vessels it does say that there needs to be an extinguisher in the room.
It is kind of temporary anyway as I will be installing a small "Fireboy" (fully automatic) system in the compartment. They use a gas that instantly puts out a fire and does not make a mess like those handhelds.
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look at fm-200 systems it's only 7 pct for totally suppression