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Esvagt Aurora, Standby safety vessel

The emergency Rescue and Recovery vessel “Esvagt Aurora” is protected with a SEM-SAFE^® high-pressure water mist system. The system protects the engine room with both a total flooding and a local application system. In addition to the class requirements, a diesel back up system for emergency operation in case of total black-out has been developed in close cooperation with Esvagt.

The SEM-SAFE^® system was put to the test in October 2012 when fire broke out due to leaking marine diesel oil from a hot exhaust pipe of one of the diesel gensets. The crew released the SEM-SAFE^® system and in less than 2 minutes, the fire was extinguished.

After the fire was extinguished, the vessel sailed to port, although it could easily have continued operations without jeopardising the safety of vessel and passenger crew.

Read the case story here