A recent IMCA Safety Flash focuses on an incident in which there was a fire in a 25bar high flow diesel driven screw compressor installed on the back deck, to provide lessons learned.

T he incident occurred on a diving support vessel operating within the 500m zone of a platform. The compressor was a long-term rental unit being used to provide ancillary air for subsea operations. It had been running for 30 minutes at the time of the fire, and there were no indications of anomalies leading up to the incident. The fire was extinguished quickly and safely. There were no injuries.

IMCA’ s member noted that this was the fourth compressor fire incident across their offshore operations since 2018.

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