SOLAS and Maritime Safety Regulations Practice Test

The system that suppresses a fire on the helideck relies on a delivery network plus the devices that apply the foam. Foam concentrate is stored separately, but to actually deploy the foam you need hose reels to reach the deployment points, distribution pipework to carry the foam solution from the tanks to those points, control panels to operate and monitor the system, and monitors to discharge the foam onto the deck. Together these elements form the essential deployment components of the helideck foam system. Monitors by themselves or foam concentrate tanks alone aren’t the full deployment network, and sprinkler heads aren’t specific to the helideck foam setup.