Introduction
Clasification Society 2024 - Version 9.40
Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Circulars - Maritime Safety Committee - MSC/Circular.1165 – Revised Guidelines for the Approval of Equivalent Water-Based Fire-Extinguishing Systems for Machinery Spaces and Cargo Pump-Rooms – (10 June 2005)Amended by MSC.1/Circular.1237Amended by MSC.1/Circular.1269Amended by MSC.1/Circular.1386 - Annex - Revised Guidelines for the Approval of Equivalent Water-Based Fire-Extinguishing Systems for Machinery Spaces and Cargo Pump-Rooms - Appendix A - Component Manufacturing Standards of Equivalent Water-Based Fire-Extinguishing Systems - Introduction

Introduction

 This document is intended to address minimum fire protection performance, construction, and marking requirements, excluding fire performance, for water-mist nozzles.

 Numbers in brackets following a section or sub-section heading refer to the appropriate section or paragraph in the Standard for Automatic sprinkler systems - Part 1: Requirements and methods of test for sprinklers, ISO 6182-1.

 The requirements for automatically operating nozzles which involve release mechanism need not be met by nozzles of manually operating systems.

Parent topic: Appendix A - Component Manufacturing Standards of Equivalent Water-Based Fire-Extinguishing Systems
Copyright 2022 Clasifications Register Group Limited, International Maritime Organization, International Labour Organization or Maritime and Coastguard Agency. All rights reserved. Clasifications Register Group Limited, its affiliates and subsidiaries and their respective officers, employees or agents are, individually and collectively, referred to in this clause as 'Clasifications Register'. Clasifications Register assumes no responsibility and shall not be liable to any person for any loss, damage or expense caused by reliance on the information or advice in this document or howsoever provided, unless that person has signed a contract with the relevant Clasifications Register entity for the provision of this information or advice and in that case any responsibility or liability is exclusively on the terms and conditions set out in that contract.