In article , Donals Dilemma
wrote:

On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 09:45:21 +1100, Peter Wiley
wrote:

Not banned for ship engine rooms. Nothing else is as effective. My
computer room on the ship has a halon-based fire suppressant system
too. Probably redundant these days - was put in when the room was full
of DEC Vaxen, now we use a handful of Solaris/Linux machines to do the
same job. One lonely Win2K machine because it runs an app for which
thre is no linux equivalent, unfortunately.

PDW

Your thoughts on this?

http://lists.samurai.com/pipermail/t...ary/000706.htm
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Interesting for small boats. I've never heard of a runaway on halon,
didn't think of it as a fuel and too lazy to check. Certainly diesels
can runaway on oil fumes & the like.

Our ships have watertight & damn near airtight doors (wouldn't
guarantee they were airtight totally) so engine rooms can be shut off &
fires starved of oxygen. Under those circumstances a runaway diesel
will draw a partial vacuum but stop.


I'm pretty sure Halon has now been banned everywhere
http://www.deh.gov.au/minister/env/97/mr16sep297.html

We still have it on the ship and I *think* we still have it on the
Antarctic bases for the same reason.

Might catch up with you some other Xmas. Wherever you're heading, have
a good one.

PDW