Introducing Fire Boat 12: The World’s Largest Automatic Recovery Vessel for Hong Kong’s Fire Department

[Article publié initialement en avril 2024]

Insubmersible because capable of self-seoking

Capacity widely devoted to the rescue canoe, self-redevelopment is a bit of survival technology. Often combined with the qualifier “Insubmersible” and particularly appreciated in the stormy seas so as not to fear the ballooning of the boat.

Auto-recovery consists, as its name suggests, ensuring that the boat is automatically straightening if it turns out that it capsizes, the keel in the air. For example, the association of SNSM (rescuers at sea) has an “all -time canoe” (CTT), which is, which is, which can be, which can be, which can be, which have been, which are, which can be, which allows you to perform rescues in a capricious sea.

A ship that makes a 180 °

It is however a feature that could legitimately interest other ships, including those belonging to the Taiwanese ship builder Lungteh, a company that combines know-how and “technology within shipbuilding”, According to a description of the official website.

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Technology which is fully expressed for this firefighter 500 UMS, whose test video quickly became viral. Completely returned, you can see the huge ship makes a complete 180 ° before ending up at the place, evacuating string of water from its openings, all in barely ten seconds.

The Fire Boat for fire services in Hong Kong

According to an exclusive article in the South Morning China Post, this video actually records the test phase of this ship called Fire Boat 12, which took place in a Taiwanese port. Also according to the article, Hong Kong spent 125 million dollars in Hong Kong, the equivalent of 14,925,043.69 €, to acquire what Lungteh presents to be “The largest automatic recovery boat in the world”.

According to the article in the sailor, the fire service of the port of Hong-Kong would already have 11 units and would be deliverable in May. “” “This will considerably improve and strengthen our capacity for research and maritime rescue in the agitated sea conditions of the eastern East of Hong Kong“Said the fire service, as the South Morning relays.

Indeed, the waters of Hong Kong are often swept by cyclones, 6 typhoons on average each year, according to a figure in France diplomacy.

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