{"id":25527,"date":"2016-05-25T20:13:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T20:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=25527"},"modified":"2016-05-25T20:13:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T20:13:15","slug":"coast-guard-warns-of-potentially-dangerous-distress-signal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2016\/05\/coast-guard-warns-of-potentially-dangerous-distress-signal\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard Warns of Potentially Dangerous Distress Signal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Coast Guard has withdrawn the Certificate of Approval (160.037\/23\/0) for NAMMO LIAB AB Orange Hand Smoke Distress Signal, and the approval status of this certificate is now marked as \u201cFormer- Do Not Use.\u201d\u00a0 This action was taken because the chemical makeup of the signal was changed in October 2013 without Coast Guard approval and the signal that was manufactured is at risk of spontaneous combustion when dropped.<\/p>\n

These smoke signals may be labeled and marketed as \u201cPolar MK 4\u201d by NAMMO LIAB AB or as \u201cIKAROS\u201d by Hansson Pyrotech.\u00a0 \u201cIKAROS\u201d Hansson Pyrotech is the more current manufacturing name.\u00a0 Datrex Inc., of Kinder, LA, is the only distributor for these products in the United States. There are approximately 2,790 signals with the potentially defect in the US market.<\/p>\n

Datrex has removed all of its remaining stock from sale and is working with customers to replace these potentially dangerous signals.\u00a0 \u00a0Any signal manufactured after October 2013 must be properly disposed of and replaced with a product that satisfies the vessel\u2019s carriage requirements.\u00a0 For questions or concerns, contact Datrex at 337-738-4511 or via email at\u00a0datrex@datrex.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This safety alert was developed by the Coast Guard Office of Design and Engineering Standards and distributed by the Office of Investigations and Casualty Analysis.\u00a0 Any questions, comments, or incidences of accidental ignition involving these signals under this Certificate of Approval should be sent to sent to: HQS-PF-fldr-CG-INV@uscg.mil<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Coast Guard has withdrawn the Certificate of Approval (160.037\/23\/0) for NAMMO LIAB AB Orange Hand Smoke Distress Signal, and the approval status of this certificate is now marked as \u201cFormer- Do Not Use.\u201d\u00a0 This action was taken because the chemical makeup of the signal was changed in October 2013 without Coast Guard approval and the signal that was manufactured is at risk of spontaneous combustion when dropped. These smoke signals may be labeled and marketed as \u201cPolar MK 4\u201d by NAMMO LIAB AB or as \u201cIKAROS\u201d by Hansson Pyrotech.\u00a0 \u201cIKAROS\u201d Hansson Pyrotech is the more current manufacturing name.\u00a0 Datrex Inc., of Kinder, LA, is the only distributor for these products in the United States. There are approximately 2,790 signals with the potentially defect in the US market. Datrex has removed all of its remaining stock from sale and is working with customers to replace these potentially dangerous signals.\u00a0 \u00a0Any signal manufactured after October 2013 must be properly disposed of and replaced with a product that satisfies the vessel\u2019s carriage requirements.\u00a0 For questions or concerns, contact Datrex at 337-738-4511 or via email at\u00a0datrex@datrex.com. This safety alert was developed by the Coast Guard Office of Design and Engineering Standards and distributed …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1109,1108,1107],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25536,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25527\/revisions\/25536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}