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Abstract
This research is purposely conducted to evaluate and compare the effectiveness, efficiency, applicability and appropriateness of modern firefighting systems installed on board ships. As a result, the review attempt to ascertain the significance of firefighting systems on ships in terms of their safety, types, structure, principles as well as installations. In this way, the review tries to justify the importance of these systems on board ships. The design of this survey revolves around three basic elements that incorporate the complete firefighting procedure. These components include: modern technology of firefighting, different types of systems that are used on board ships and people traits in terms of drilling, firefighting training to deal with any incident of fire. In the previous decade, the globe has experienced massive destructions, harms and injuries resulting from fire incidents on ships. This has triggered and ignited enhanced fabrication and staging of new practices, technologies and inventions aimed at efficiently deal with fire incidents so as to support the safekeeping and reliability on these fire systems on board ships. Equally, through this technological enhancement, the firefighting systems have been designed to facilitate rapid detection capable of differentiating between real smokes or flames indicators in case of a fire event on board ship. In recent times, these technological developments have been viewed as strategies that help ship owners to ensure better protection of the crew’s life, ship’s inventories as well as minimising on the possible losses that occur as a result of fire events on board ship. Therefore, with the review of the recent or latest methods and technologies for speedy fire detection on ships, the review demonstrates enhancement attributes, features and qualities of these new systems. Additionally, the paper critically evaluates the components of these firefighting systems, as well as looking at their competences, capabilities, benefits and applicability on board ships.