CHAPTER 7 FIRE PROTECTION AND EXTINGUISHING

7100. Genera1

The requirements of this Chapter apply to the minimum fire protection and extinction for the docks and do not cover equipment fitted for fighting fires that may occur on ships in the dock. Attention should also be given to any relevant statutory requirements of the National Authority of the country in which the dock is to operate. Compliance with such statutory requirements may, at the discretion of the Society, be accepted as meeting the requirements of this Chapter.

7200. Fire Protection

7201. Accommodation

Accommodation, control station and service spaces are to be arranged so that the risk of fire will be reduced to a minimum. Deck houses are to be of steel or equivalent materials. Deck coverings on the decks forming the crown of machinery spaces are to be of a type which will not readily ignite.

7202. Machinery space

Boundary walls of the machinery spaces and interior stairways below the top deck to be of steel or equivalent materials.

7203. Paints

In accommodation, control station, service and machinery spaces, paints, varnished and similar prep- arations having a nitrocellulose or other highly inflammable bases are not to be used.

7300 Fire-Extinguishing

7301. Piping system for fire-extinguishing

The fire pumps, associated piping and fire main are to be so designed that a minimum pressure can be maintained sufficient to produce at least 12 m jet throw through adjacent nozzles of sizes

required by 7302. A fire main is to be provided on each dock wing.

ter supply are to be provided for the fire main. At least, one mean of adequate shoreside supply or an independent driven emergency pump

dock.

Two separate means of wa-

water supply is to be of an is to be provided with the

7302. Hydrant, hose and nozzle

1. The number and position of the hydrants are to be such that at least two jets of water not emanat- ing from the same hydrant, one of which is to be from a single length of hose, may reach any part of the dock except the water ballast tanks under any operating conditions.

2. In spaces containing machinery with a total power of 1,000 PS and over, two hydrants are to be provided, and in spaces where the total power of the machinery is less than 1,000 PS, one hydrant will be accepted. Where, in either of the above cases, fire fighting from within a small compart- ment is impracticable due to limitations in space, the hydrants required may be situated outside and adjacent to the compartment entrance.

3. The fire hoses are to be sufficient in length to protect a jet of water to any of the spaces in

which they may be required to be used. The hoses nozzle in size of 12 mm or over.

are not to exceed 18 meters in length with a

7303. International shore connection

It is recommended that the top deck of the dock is provided with the international shore con- nection specified in Ch. II-2/Reg.19 of '74 SOLAS 1988 amend to supply water to the docking

ship's extinguisher from the dock's pump.

7304. Portable extinguisher

1. Portable extinguishers are to be placed onboard in places with risk of fire. Within the accom- modation portable extinguishers are to be so placed that at least one extinguisher will be accessible from any part of the accommodation. The total number of extinguishers required within the accom- modation area will depend on its size and arrangement.

2. Portable extinguishers are to be provided in machinery spaces as well as spaces with electric mo- tors and switchboards etc. for pumps, warping capstans etc. Number and location will depend on the size and arrangement of the spaces.

7305. Fire smothering gas system

Where provision is made for the injection of gas into machinery spaces for fire-extinguishing pur- poses, the necessary pipes for conveying the gas are to be provided with control valves or cocks

which are to be so an outbreak of fire.

any compartment.

placed that they wi1l be easily accessible and not readily cut off from use by

Suitable provision is to be made to prevent inadvertent admission of the gas to