Your ship is ready to sail on the wide oceans, another milestone achieved, but is it really ready to sail? If your ship isn’t protected against all odds especially fire, then it is not ready to sail at all. When out in the middle of the globe with miles of ocean water on every side, you are totally on your own. You have to make sure your ship can bring back everyone in one piece without making the journey a nightmare. There is no stopping to fire once it starts, the entire ship can be burnt within minutes. Look what happened to the mighty Titanic. The mammoth ship went down to the bottom within a very short time.

Thankfully the ships of today are well equipped to detect rocks underneath water. And they can even navigate through fog without much difficulty but everything becomes possible of the technology is present in them. To fight the worst fire, the Novec 1230 gas suppression system is perfectly suited. No matter if the fire is caused due to an electric short circuit or due to gas leakage, the system is built to bring it under control within minutes. It has the ability to stop the flames from expanding and bringing the entire ship under the heat. Hence it is perfectly safe to use and makes the ship safer from thermal damages.

The system is simple with a set of single skinned cylinders holding the gas connected to a series of pipes and heat plus smoke detectors. The pipes are the road for the gas to travel to the areas it is needed. The gas is non toxic, colorless and odorless. This means if the gas is released at any point, the people on board will not be harmed by the release. And, the ship’s interior remains unharmed by the gas, it does not leave any color on the paint and other expensive things present inside.

Simply having the system installed does not make you carefree. You have an obligation to have the cylinders checked for pressure with the ultrasonic liquid level indicator. A low pressure is dangerous because it makes the gas unreliable. The low pressure gas cannot travel through the pipes with the needed pressure and may not be able to be as effective at the flames. Hence if you ever see the pressure going low on the meter, have the cylinders replaced or refilled at once.