No matter how big, beautiful, modern and technology equipped or simple to the core as just plain wooden boards strapped together to make it float a ship may be, when it needs to be saved from fire there is no need of anything fancy but an effective fire suppression system and a capable fire killing agent is needed. There is no secret to the fact that fires do happen on ships. The reasons are never the same but the consequences are pretty much the same if the flames aren’t taken care of at the right moment.

When fire takes over a ship in the middle of the ocean, lives are lost, people go missing, valuables are damaged beyond repair and the ship becomes useless. It is a total loss for the ship owner and the people on it once it the destruction starts taking place and there is no proper equipment to fight the flames that are spreading around mercilessly and taking down everything that comes within its grip. It is a no brainer even to the most illiterate person of today to know that carbon dioxide aka CO2 is a lethal weapon against fire.

Ships can be easily protected with the CO2 & marine CO2 systems which are efficient, powerful against the worst fires and also do not cause damage of its own. The damage here is referred to the damage that can be caused by an agent used to kill the flames for instance water. If you throw a pail of water on a pile of burning paper, the fire would be put out but water would have caused additional damage to the papers. They would get wet and the ink on them might also be washed off causing a loss of written material worth a fortune. Most of the time if legal papers get soaked and are dried, they lose their original color and may start to look fake which is an equal damage to them getting burned.

CO2 is a gas which has no color and also does not has any odor. And we all know that gases do not make anything wet hence the possibility of drenching anything that gets sprayed upon is obviously eliminated. We all understand that gases cannot be contained in boxes nor can they be left in the open air as they would soon mix with the air and dissolve in it. Hence they are put inside single skinned containers which have no openings and nothing can penetrate them. So, in order to learn about the contents inside, an ultrasonic liquid level indicator is used when measuring the CO2 inside the single skinned container.