Safety pins left in fire suppression system – high potential near miss

Description of Incident

The incident occurred following a major refit / dry docking. The vessel departed port and sailed to its area of operation to complete the works and prepare for being commercially available. On arrival, the Flag State carried out an inspection of the vessel and found that all of the CO2 bottles for the engine room fire suppression system still had their safety pins in place. This means that if there had been an engine room fire, the crew would have been unable to set off the suppression system remotely and any deployment of the system would have been seriously hampered and hindered.

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