Safety is one of the key features to install whenever you purchase something. Although most of the ships have installed safety features but most of the ones roaming the seas are old with no proper safety features or installations. The most horrible accidents at sea have been due to fire onboard and without proper equipment to fight it; the damage toll was raised to irrecoverable. If a ship, hundreds of miles away from shore gets caught in fire, there is little or no chance for the survivors to actually survive. Because the ship gets worn in such a bad manner, communication is lost and the people can only survive for a short time. It is by chance that some passing ship comes near them and provides help otherwise the ship’s crew would be doomed.

Fire safety installations should be on top of the priority list whenever a ship gets ready to sail. Fire accident obviously happens due to human error and when it does, the only thing to prevent it from spreading is to fight it using the fire suppression system. One of the well known systems today is the Novec 1230 gas suppression system which provides accurate suppression and can save more than the ship itself. It is not the best remedy to try fighting the flames with water. While water does have the tendency to put out flames, but it can’t put out flames of all fire types. For instance most chemicals are known to react harshly with water and if such a chemical is involved in the outburst of flames, water will only incite more of it causing greater harm.

Since water is a very good conductor of electricity, in case of an electric short circuit caused fire, spraying the affected area with water can cause the person spraying water to be electrocuted without diminishing the flames too. Water can cause even more problems by getting inside the electric sockets and cause another short circuit which would be an added problem to tackle with the already raging flames. Hence using something that is no reactive to most chemicals and being a non conductor of electricity is the key to save the ship, the cargo and the people on it and nothing serves best but the Novec 1230.

Since Novec 1230 is a liquefied gas and needs to be attached to a system that can suck the agent and pass it through the series of pipes to the needed area, it is filled in single skinned containers. Single skinned containers have no openings from where the human eye could see inside hence once filled, they can only be measured by a device such as the ultrasonic liquid level indicator.