Year: 2025 Language: English Author: British Tugowners Association Genre: Guide Publisher: Polestar Publishing Edition: 2025 Edition Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 51 Description: Ship fires have occurred throughout maritime history, often leading to significant loss of life, environmental damage, and changes in maritime safety regulations. Ships with a firefighting role can be deployed for various tasks: direct support in controlling and, when possible, extinguishing ship fires, or, for example, as a platform for firefighters and salvors to approach the ship from the water. This Guide, produced by the British Tugowners Association, provides advice and guidance on how tug operators should consider deploying a tug with firefighting capacity as effectively as possible. This Guide provides a starting point of the towage industry’s thinking about how best to approach some of challenges a firefighting scenario presents, whether a traditional hydrocarbon-based fire, or of the variety alternative fuels that are entering the market and have distinct characteristics.
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BTA Guide Use of Tugs in Firefighting
Language: English
Author: British Tugowners Association
Genre: Guide
Publisher: Polestar Publishing
Edition: 2025 Edition
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 51
Description: Ship fires have occurred throughout maritime history, often leading to significant loss of life, environmental damage, and changes in maritime safety regulations. Ships with a firefighting role can be deployed for various tasks: direct support in controlling and, when possible, extinguishing ship fires, or, for example, as a platform for firefighters and salvors to approach the ship from the water.
This Guide, produced by the British Tugowners Association, provides advice and guidance on how tug operators should consider deploying a tug with firefighting capacity as effectively as possible. This Guide provides a starting point of the towage industry’s thinking about how best to approach some of challenges a firefighting scenario presents, whether a traditional hydrocarbon-based fire, or of the variety alternative fuels that are entering the market and have distinct characteristics.
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