MetalCraft Marine’s Kingston, Ontario, shipyard has completed what it calls a “behemoth” of a fireboat for the Kuwait Fire Service, whose director, General Mosa Ackbar set the basic requirements for the vessel. He needed very high towers that could shoot huge volumes of water over and across the high decks of oil carriers. Kuwait exports approximately 2,000,000 barrels of oil per day and, as oil fires are very hard to put out, the boat would need a massive amount of petroleum extinguishing foam.
