Peggie Hall wrote in
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If his engine was diesel, he'd have had to be standing on his head
with with his nose next to the exhaust thru-hull...'cuz there's never
been a reported marine related CO death or "near miss" from a diesel
exhaust in open air...they've all been from gas (petrol to you g)
engines/generators. In fact, gasoline engines are the only ones at
issue, because most smaller boats and boats on inland waters where
most of the accidents happen have gas engines.

This isn't true. Actually there have been a few documented cases of CO
death due to diesel generators outputting exhaust fumes below swim
platforms and/or blowing back into poorly ventilated deck spaces. I spent
quite a bit of time looking into this last year. Quoting from the much
missed FischerPandaSucks.com forum:

"OSHA sets a CO exposure limit of 50 PPM for 1 hour. If levels exceed 100
PPM personnel must be removed.

Exposure to 300 PPM for 1-2 hours can result in death. Exposure to 800 PPM
for 1 hour is deadly. Source:
http://www.ilpi.com/msds/ref/carbonmonoxide.html

While diesel exhaust has a much lower CO composition (0.4%) compared to
gasoline engine (7%), it does have 1000-5000 PPM of CO with levels up to
60,000 PPM possible. Source: http://www.coheadquarters.com/coDiesel01.htm"


However, I will definately state that this type of problem was MUCH more
prevelent with gas power generators.

-- Geoff