Safety Flash
Serious engine room fire whilst divers in saturation
Serious engine room fire whilst divers in saturation
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 10/14
- DivingEmergency ResponseHot Work and FirePressure Systems
- FireHydrocarbon releaseMaterial fatiguePressure systems
- Inspection and maintenanceSaturation diving
- Valve
- Emergency responseEvacuation, escape and rescueFire protectionIgnition source control
- Marine industry
- Vessel
Summary
An engine-room fire aboard an offshore vessel alongside prompted transfer of saturation divers to a hyperbaric rescue craft. Investigation linked diesel spray ignition to fatigue failure of an insufficiently tightened fuel-filter stud. The flash discusses water-mist suppression, fuel shut-off shortcomings, torque information and separation of filters from hot exhaust surfaces. Nobody was injured.
Classifications: Fire; fire safety.
Classifications: Hydrocarbon release; hydrocarbon leak; oil and gas release.
Classifications: Material fatigue; metal fatigue.
Classifications: Pressure systems; stored pressure; pressurised systems; pressurized systems.
Classifications: Inspection and maintenance; asset inspection; equipment maintenance.
Classifications: Saturation diving; sat diving.
Classifications: Valve; valves.
Classifications: Emergency response; emergency preparedness.
Classifications: Evacuation, escape and rescue; EER; escape and rescue.
Classifications: Fire protection; fire suppression; fire detection.
Classifications: Ignition source control; ignition prevention.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Vessel; aboard ship; onboard vessel.
Summary
Fuel escaping from a failed filter stud ignited near an engine exhaust while saturation divers were onboard.
IMCA SF 10/14. Themes: diving, emergency response, hot work and fire, pressure systems.