If you can smell exhaust fumes in your boat, donāt ignore them!!!
Boaters need to pay attention to exhaust gases, particularly petrol engine exhaust fumes if they can smell them in the boatās cabins because they can contain carbon monoxide (CO) in quantities that will harm or kill warns UK Parliamentarians and the Boat Safety Scheme (BSS).
Are you wise to CO poisoning?
BSS asks: āBoaters, are you wise to carbon monoxide poisoning?ā this follows the discovery of two bodies on a private boat on the Norfolk Broads.
BSS points boaters to important safety issues highlighted by recent boat tragedies
In the space of a few days, three people on two vessels have died from suspected carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning and the Boat Safety Scheme is pointing boat owners to its advice to help stay safe. A man living on his narrowboat in Banbury died along with his pet dog and two fishermen have been […]
BSS Safety Jan 2010
Click on this link to read an important BSS Safety Warning (pdf 39KB)