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Houseboat CO Poisonings and Deaths
Carbon monoxide poisonings occur on houseboats, vessels with overhead canopies or other vessels that have poor ventilation. Carbon monoxide also accumulates onboard a vessel through a process known as the ‘station wagon effect.' This occurs as air moves around a boat and forms a low pressure area immediately behind the broad, flat transom. Carbon monoxide from the exhaust system enters the low-pressure area and is fed back into the cockpit and into cabin.
Carbon monoxide deaths are also caused by swimmers near running engines or generators.
Houseboats with a rear swim deck and a water-level swim platform are an imminent danger to persons who enter the air space beneath the deck or spend time near the rear deck. The presence of features (e.g., engine propellers, water slides, and swim platform) that attract occupancy of that airspace enhances the risk for severe injury and death.
In 2000, the CDC issued the following recommendations to boat manufacturers:
To prevent CO poisonings and deaths, boat manufacturers should immediately devise engineering changes to new and existing boats to prevent the collection of CO in airspaces around the stern deck. Boat manufacturers should evaluate the effectiveness of such controls. Boat owners should contact the manufacturer of their boats to determine whether effective corrective measures have been identified.
If the owner of the vessel that causes injury/ death did not receive such notification, then you should investigate further.
The CDC found CO poisonings also occur inside houseboats. Dozens and dozens of the nonfatal CO poisonings at Lake Powell occurr inside boat cabins. Many of these were in boats on which CO detectors had been disabled because of repeated alarms.
Boat manufacturers have a duty to warn of the hazards of CO on houseboats to ensure that boat occupants heed such alarms and act accordingly.
All boats should be equipped with CO detectors, and boat occupants should never disable alarms.
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