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Note:
• If the flooding is in the engine room and there has been no damage to the hull by way of a
breach, then the source of the water will more than likely be one of the engine sea cooling water
system’s pipes.
• You will need to check which engine has the sea water pipe leak and shut down that engine.
• There may be cold sea water spraying onto the hot engines which will lead to the engine room
possibly being filled with steam, which may reduce the visibility in the engine room and be a safety
hazard.

• If it is the starboard engine, shut down that engine to stop the flow of water into the engine room,
followed by closing the starboard engine’s sea valve.
• If it is the port engine, shut down that engine to stop the flow of water into the engine room,
followed by closing the port engine’s sea valve.
• There is a cross over pipe between the port and stbd bilge pumps for redundancy on the suction
side of the pumps, this enables you to use the port or stbd engines to pump from any compartment

6.13. ORC 140 FIRE FIGHTING
• Coxswain to assume control of the vessel.
• If underway, throttle back to idle speed and stay in gear.
• Turn the bow into the wind.
• Navigator to inform the rescue base of situation on the vessel.
• Navigator to inform the rescue base of position.
• Stay in contact with rescue base during the incident.
• Remaining deck crew must move to the foredeck life-raft station, to prepare to abandon ship if
required. Ensure that you have capsize canister, EPIRB and VHF handheld radio.

Do not launch life raft until instructed to do so by coxswain.

Engine room fire
If the engine room fire alarm or the tiller compartment fire alarm is activated, or smoke is observed
on the engine room CCTV monitor, the following actions must take place:

• Execute the Standard Actions in case of a Fire Alarm.
• Bosun to go to the engine room with the remaining deck crew to investigate - crew to remain in
contact via the intercom system with the wheelhouse.
• Coxswain/helmsman to switch off engine room fans.
• Coxswain/helmsman to monitor CCTV to see what is happening in the engine room.
• Remaining deck crew to close engine room air vent fire hatches on aft deck port side and star-
board sides of the wheelhouse.

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