DANGERBefore entering the engine room, ventilate the room properly, to avoid risks due to high temperatures and noxious gases suspended in the air.
If the fire-fighting system of the engine room has been activated and a fire has been extinguished, it is necessary to restore the essential conditions for navigation, in order to quickly reach the nearest harbour in which to carry out the due checks.
To resume navigation, the ventilation system of the engine room and the fuel system of the propulsion engines must be brought back to normal working condition.
DANGERBefore entering the engine room, ventilate the room properly, to avoid risks due to high temperatures and noxious gases suspended in the air.
DANGERThese operations have to be carried out directly from the engine room; therefore before carrying out any operation, carefully read the safety instructions in this.
DANGERResetting the fire-fighting system, with the aim of resuming navigation is a recommended operation only in case the fire source has not caused damage to the yacht’s structure or to important devices of the same.
In such a case, or should you have any doubt, it is essential, to wait for rescue without resuming navigation.
WARNINGRemember that, as a result of the fire-fighting system reset, the FM-200 extinguisher will be discharged and will be inefficient in case of another fire break out. Therefore, once returned to the harbour, you must have the fire extinguishers immediately recharged by authorised personnel.
To allow the starting of the propulsion engines, it is necessary to manually activate the engine supply valves, located on the fuel tank in the engine room.
For this purpose, it is necessary to open the fuel delivery valves, previously closed by the fire-fighting handle for fuel cut-off, by turning them anticlockwise.
The fuel cut-off valves are not to be left in intermediate positions but they must be completely open, when the red handle is parallel to the longitudinal axis of the piping.