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THE FUNCTION OF FIXED FIRE DETECTION AND FIRE ALARM SYSTEMS SHALL BE PERIODICALLY TESTED TO THE SATISFACTION OF THE ADMINISTRATION BY MEANS OF EQUIPMENT PRODUCING HOT AIR AT THE APPROPRIATE TEMPERATURE, OR SMOKE OR AEROSOL PARTICLES HAVING HE APPROPRIATE RANGE OF DENSITY OR PARTICLE SIZE, OR OTHER PHENOMENA ASSOCIATED WITH INCIPIENT FIRES TO WHICH THE DETECTORS IS DESIGNED TO RESPOND. WHILE CONDUCTING ENGINE ROOM EXAM, PSCO REQUESTED TO TEST HEAT AND FLAME DETECTORS, TO WHERE THE CREW STATED THEY WOULD USE A LIGHTER AS THE TESTING METHOD. SMS SAYS TO TEST IN ACCORDANCE WITH MAKER'S INSTRUTIONS. CREW WAS UNABLE TO PROVIDE MAKERS' INSTRUCTIONS FOR TESTING DETECTORS. PROVIDE CLASS REPORT ATTESTING TO PROPER TESTING OF SMOKE, HEAT, AND FLAME DETECTORS, IN ACCORDANCE WITH SMS AND MAKER'S INSTRUCTIONS WITHIN 7 DAYS OF EXAM DATE. 74 SOLAS (20) II-2/7.3.2 ACTION: 705AC

After any survey of the ship, no change shall be made in the structural arrangements, machinery, equipment, and other items covered by the survey, without the sanction of the administatrion. An auxiliary air conditioning unit was installed for the bridge with wiring penetrating two A Class bulkheads of the battery room without any documentation or approval. 74 SOLAS 2014 Ch. I/11. 16.a.c.

1430-Each emergency generating set arranged to be automatically started shall be equipped with a second source of energy provided for an additional three starts. The vessel's secondary source of energy (batteries) is not working. 74 Solas 2004 Cons. Ch. II-1/Reg 44.2 (17ac)