Hanley is correct.
Those are the requirements here in Canada also Hanley. 5 lb may work if used correctly...if not, it's over because it's spent.
This one was thought to be an electrical fire as far as I know. It was my friend Phil's boat...a C&C 30 like mine. (my boat is directly behind her on the other marina. The fire wrote another off and another severely damaged. The heat also damaged the bow of the two boats in the direction that you see the smoke drift. Memers of Fleet Diving unit dumped 4 5lb'ers from neighboring boats into this before it even got this bad. Once the fiberglass gets a start its bad news. They pulled one boat away but couldn't go back due to the heat. It actually grew more and more until the arrival of the fire tug. She went out when filled with water (by fire tug) and sank. Recoved a few days later and was burned to about 18 inches above the waterline.
Fiberglass will flame up again and again after its knocked down because of the heat generated, it's a very toxic chemical fire in every sense of the word...I would caution everyone not to under estimate a fiberglass fire....get it out.
Those are the requirements here in Canada also Hanley. 5 lb may work if used correctly...if not, it's over because it's spent.
This one was thought to be an electrical fire as far as I know. It was my friend Phil's boat...a C&C 30 like mine. (my boat is directly behind her on the other marina. The fire wrote another off and another severely damaged. The heat also damaged the bow of the two boats in the direction that you see the smoke drift. Memers of Fleet Diving unit dumped 4 5lb'ers from neighboring boats into this before it even got this bad. Once the fiberglass gets a start its bad news. They pulled one boat away but couldn't go back due to the heat. It actually grew more and more until the arrival of the fire tug. She went out when filled with water (by fire tug) and sank. Recoved a few days later and was burned to about 18 inches above the waterline.
Fiberglass will flame up again and again after its knocked down because of the heat generated, it's a very toxic chemical fire in every sense of the word...I would caution everyone not to under estimate a fiberglass fire....get it out.
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