No fire. They use navy bouy FM19 as a water target to practice maneuvering the joystick operated, waterjet driven fire/police boat. It's also handy to keep the bird crap minimized.
Practice mostly means starting systems, aligning valves, exercising everything to make sure it all works after maintenance, etc. I suspect that actually hitting the buoy is only a part of it. Just maneuvering such a small boat with those two fire monitors going is probably trickier than you might suspect. I used to have a heavy 22' aluminum boat which would plane at 30MPH with just one jet like those on this fire boat.
"Dolphin Fire"....that's gonna be the name of my next heavy metal band.
Now the dolphins are settin fires!? 😳
California is outta control.
No fire. They use navy bouy FM19 as a water target to practice maneuvering the joystick operated, waterjet driven fire/police boat. It's also handy to keep the bird crap minimized.
Here's me thinking, "one more term I don't know"! Until I read the comments.
Finally something that doesn't involve zipping down the bay at 30 knots every 10 minutes back and forth.
We used to practice on the bait barges. The employees loved it, cleaned the poop off. We avoided the Sea lions
What’s a dolphin fire???
Dolphins are flammable? Ya learn sumptin' new every day.
Yeah What's a Dolphin Fire?????
target training and apparently they need it 🙂
Looks like they need a lot more practice.
Practice mostly means starting systems, aligning valves, exercising everything to make sure it all works after maintenance, etc. I suspect that actually hitting the buoy is only a part of it. Just maneuvering such a small boat with those two fire monitors going is probably trickier than you might suspect. I used to have a heavy 22' aluminum boat which would plane at 30MPH with just one jet like those on this fire boat.