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Well, yeh, but I thought the focii of concern were (a) putting out an engine compartment fire, and (b) not permanently wrecking the engine, especially in a case where an automatic triggering of a fire suppression system was due to a false alarm. Direct ducting to the engine air intake would promote both those objectives.Most engines on pleasure vessels do.
I have vents into my engine compartment with valves to close the air flow as required by out safety authority
In this case the engine would need to be shut down as the engine would still run as the fire extinguisher would not deprive the engine of the require air
Is automatic engine shutdown a design objective?
I'd doubt an engine compartment fire is the main fire threat to a boat anyway, especially with a diesel engine, compared to exhaust containment failures, (particularly failures of exhaust water cooling), cooking fires, electrical fires, and smoking (particularly smoking-in-berth)