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IMCA safety flashes disseminate important information on incidents and potential hazards and the lessons learnt from them that can help prevent incidents occurring elsewhere in the industry.

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Awareness: CO₂ flooding system activation points

A member has highlighted a potential gap in safety awareness which may be of interest to members.  One of their vessels has a CO2 flooding system activation point within the […]

| Included in IMCA Safety Flash 35/16

Pressure switch location for fixed fire suppression systems

The United States Coast Guard has published a report regarding an engine room fire in a vessel. The safety alert addresses the location of fire suppression system pressure switches aboard […]

| Included in IMCA Safety Flash 05/13

Engine room CO₂ isolating valve

The Marine Safety Forum (MSF) has published Safety Flash 11-31 regarding a ‘routine’ inspection of a vessel’s COâ‚‚ fire fighting system. It was noticed that the engine room COâ‚‚ isolating […]

| Included in IMCA Safety Flash 12/11

Serious failure of CO₂ fire-fighting system

The United States Coast Guard (USCG) has published Alerts 10(a)-10 abd 10(b)-10 regarding the failure of a CO2 fire-fighting system during a fire in a machinery space on board a […]

| Included in IMCA Safety Flash 01/11

CO₂ systems safety pins

The UK Marine Safety Forum (MSF) has published the enclosed safety flash concerning the safety pins used for transporting and disabling COâ‚‚ cylinders.

| Included in IMCA Safety Flash 04/10

Breathing gas contamination

A member has reported an incident involving the contamination of a diver’s breathing gas. CO2 contamination was found to be present in three cylinders of a diver’s breathing gas (96/4%). […]

| Included in IMCA Safety Flash 01/06

Exposure to CO₂ release from dry ice storage

IMCA has learned of the following incident whereby an unexpected hazard arose when stowing refrigerated stores. A vessel was in the process of mobilising for a prolonged spell offshore and […]

| Included in IMCA Safety Flash 08/03

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