Carbon monoxide fatality

I had a 1990 310/330 DA and it had a CO2 detector in it from the factory.

John
 
Very sad....we'll include them in our prayers...
 
xravenx said:
I had a 1990 310/330 DA and it had a CO2 detector in it from the factory.

John
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From the site
"The boat did not have a carbon monoxide detector onboard."

Sorry to hear about this. It's extremely unfortunate and as you all have said, Sad :smt009
 
Todd,

You are correct about that boat not having a CO2 detector. I have had to replace the one in my 95 370 DA, so they do fail, maybe that boat originally had one and it went bad and was never replaced, boy if the boat was surveyed I hope that was in the report. The boat was a 1991, but the local news kept saying it was a brand new boat, it was new to the owner, he just got it Saturday.

John
 
wish2fish said:
How do you know it was a sea ray?
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A good friend of mine keeps his boat on the same peir as that boat, he was there yesterday......................You can't tell by the video it is a SR?

John
 
It is very sad. Are there any more details? Why would they run a generator at the dock? I did see shore power connections on other boats in the marina.
 
I agree -- very sad, but reinforces my reluctance to sleep with the genny running.

Here is a link to a Baltimore Sun article about the incident. They state that it is a 31-foot Sea Ray but there aren't many more details. No mention whether the generator was running or not, although one person speculates that the CO might have come fromt he generator. Apparently they had been ont he boat for a 7-hour trip with no ill effects.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/lo...,7941709.story?coll=bal-local-baltimorecounty[/code]

Jeff
 
xravenx said:
I didn't see a new topic about this, thought I would pass it along. I was actually standing on that very peir Friday evening. The boat is a 1991 310/330 DA

http://wjz.com/topstories/local_story_169152512.html

John
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John,
Sorry I didn't hang around on Saturday. I was looking for my brother and another friend. It was too rough for the women so we went to the beach opposite of Parkside Marina, along the airport property. Small world.
Greg
 
xravenx said:
I didn't see a new topic about this, thought I would pass it along. I was actually standing on that very peir Friday evening. The boat is a 1991 310/330 DA

http://wjz.com/topstories/local_story_169152512.html

John
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John -- We actually took the dinghy over for breakfast on Sunday morning.....we were directly across from where I believe that Sea Ray was docked. So awful .... and scary!

Debbi
 
LMBoat said:
Why would they run a generator at the dock? .
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I was at a marina as a transient two seasons ago when another boat pulled in two slips away late at night. (for me it was late...about 9PM) I guess he was just too lazy to get out his cords and plug in so he started his genie. He and his guest then got off the boat and started to walk away. I called him back and he got an attitude. So I called the security guard and when he got there, in his presence, I went on board and shut down his genie......some folks just don't get it......

They got back after midnight, untied and took off....never heard a word.....
 
We don't have a generator and we don't have a carbon monoxide detector either. I always thought without the first you don't need the second. Maybe I'm wrong...

Chazaroo
 
I would still have one in any cabin. We had a situation a few weeks ago where a 200 footer was docking in our marina and was filling all the cabins down the rest of the dock w/ CO and all the alarms were going off. Folks had to get up and out even with no one running the genies... just the big boy spewing death.
 
Your 5.7 emits far more carbon monoxide than a generator does - a detector helps protect you against the station wagon effect.

It would also warn you if nearby equipment is pushing CO into your cabin.
 
We sleep on our boat with the generator running all the time. When we are on the hook, there is just no getting around it. The 480 is all 110v inside with a SubZero fridge and freezer. Toss in the AC in our lovely 100 degree heat (oh... it goes down to 80 at night) and we need to leave that thing running. I've had it running for 3 days straight (24 hours/day) and didn't think anything of it. We do, however, have 4 CO detectors in the boat.

This is probably a little different animal than gas though. The genny on our boat is a 4 cylinder 1800 RPM Onan in a soundbox so you can hardly even hear the thing running.... but I don't think it is abnormal to leave a diesel genny running overnight at anchor.
 
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