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Man found dead on Boat

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Pets dying along with their owners is a common feature of CO incidents.

 

Bear in mind that CO doesn't only come from gas appliances. A solid fuel stove is just as likely to have been the source, if this is confirmed as a CO incident.

 

Odd they say the cause of this tragic event is being investigated by the police. This is normally the job of the HSE.

 

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(Edit to change 'bare' into 'bear'.)

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A man and dog have been found dead on a boat in Banbury. We passed there the day before yesterday.

 

http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/10914100.Man_and_his_dog_die_in_tragic_accident_on_canal_boat/

(Off topic) Hi ditchcrawler, it was me and my wife who chatted to you while you were going up the lock in the middle of Banbury earlier this week. Good to meet you!

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Pets dying along with their owners is a common feature of CO incidents.

 

Bear in mind that CO doesn't only come from gas appliances. A solid fuel stove is just as likely to have been the source, if this is confirmed as a CO incident.

 

Odd they say the cause of this tragic event is being investigated by the police. This is normally the job of the HSE.

 

MtB

 

 

(Edit to change 'bare' into 'bear'.)

Although perhaps a formality the Police will need to make sure that no other external factors contributed to the deaths or any mysterious circumstances that may be of interest to them.

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I often test my CO alarm by pushing the 'test button' but I always think all that I am testing is whether that switch works rather than the actual sensor. Last night my boat was FULL with anti-freeze flavoured steam and alarm went off so I was well happy and now have faith the actual sensor works.

 

RIP man and dog. At least they went together.

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Yep, just tested mine, sad news and whilst we don't yet know all of the details it's a timely reminder to check your CO alarms. Whilst your at it, test your smoke alarms as well.

 

I also bought two new smoke alarms today as the others had died. I always have two of each on board. But it's a long boat.

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Pets dying along with their owners is a common feature of CO incidents.

 

Bear in mind that CO doesn't only come from gas appliances. A solid fuel stove is just as likely to have been the source, if this is confirmed as a CO incident.

 

Odd they say the cause of this tragic event is being investigated by the police. This is normally the job of the HSE.

 

MtB

 

 

(Edit to change 'bare' into 'bear'.)

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Spot on there Mike a friend of mine had a close escape with two disposable barbecues!! Sad

 

Yes a shocking number of people die from misusing these things IIRC. Repeated incidents where people take them inside tents when it rains and die of CO poisoning. Something horrendous like 20 deaths so far....

 

 

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I also bought two new smoke alarms today as the others had died. I always have two of each on board. But it's a long boat.

 

It's called a narrow boat! I thought you'd know that by now!

 

(I'm joking)

 

RIP the bloke and his dog - sounds like CO if they both went together.

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What's a good way of testing that the sensor is working. I always wonder why ours is always on 0 even when recently with the wind we've had some diesel fumes blow back into the saloon, and even with that it still reads 0 We've never seen any other reading.

 

Buy a 'CO detector test kit'.

 

Cost is about thee quid per test.

 

http://www.safelincs.co.uk/detectagas-co-detector-tester/

 

 

MtB

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Buy a 'CO detector test kit'.

 

Cost is about thee quid per test.

 

http://www.safelincs.co.uk/detectagas-co-detector-tester/

 

 

MtB

 

The method i use is to stand on the roof with all 3 of the boat's C.O. alarms and hold them one at a time a couple of feet down wind of the chimney.

 

Crude maybe,but it sets them a squawking!

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I made my brother test his CO alarm last night. And I tested both mine. And I made some of the chatroom posse test theirs too.

 

 

 

Do it. (Or I'll get shouty)

Ha - my Missus works for said Fire & Rescue Service (Kidlington) who dealt with this. Needless to say our smoke alarms and C0 equipment is tested daily. . . :/

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The method i use is to stand on the roof with all 3 of the boat's C.O. alarms and hold them one at a time a couple of feet down wind of the chimney.

 

Crude maybe,but it sets them a squawking!

 

Yes, scary isn't it, to think of all that CO relying on your chimley to escort it out of the bote.

 

MtB

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Yes, scary isn't it, to think of all that CO relying on your chimley to escort it out of the bote.

 

MtB

Except when this happens..

 

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It was 11.45pm one night when the CO alarm went off in April 2011. We had no idea why. Opened all doors and windows and sat by the cratch door until the ecofan stopped working and the alarm stopped sounding.

 

The alarm would wake us during the night if there were more problems.

 

On investigating in the morning, it was discovered that there were holes in the BACK of the flue pipe!

 

Now we check each week. If we didn't have that CO alarm I probably wouldn't be writing this post.

 

We now have a spare working alarm in case the one we have fails.

 

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Except when this happens..

 

038.jpg

 

It was 11.45pm one night when the CO alarm went off in April 2011. We had no idea why. Opened all doors and windows and sat by the cratch door until the ecofan stopped working and the alarm stopped sounding.

 

The alarm would wake us during the night if there were more problems.

 

On investigating in the morning, it was discovered that there were holes in the BACK of the flue pipe!

 

Now we check each week. If we didn't have that CO alarm I probably wouldn't be writing this post.

 

We now have a spare working alarm in case the one we have fails.

 

Wow! That's nasty, glad you had detectors, we have two, one in the front room and one by the bed, both at respective average head heights.

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