SCUBA / Swift Water Response Unit

[tbendick]

Tools, Equipment and Boats Purchased because of Superstorm Sandy by Official New York City Fire Department (FDNY), on Flickr


Tools, Equipment and Boats Purchased because of Superstorm Sandy by Official New York City Fire Department (FDNY), on Flickr


Tools, Equipment and Boats Purchased because of Superstorm Sandy by Official New York City Fire Department (FDNY), on Flickr

 

[116ff60]

How many of these does the FDNY have?

 

[NYBravest82]

I heard that these are flat-bottom boats...whats the advantage of these over other type of boats?

 

[68jk09]

I heard that these are flat-bottom boats...whats the advantage of these over other type of boats?

Maybe shallow draft ?

 

[BCR]

The flat bottoms are meant to be used in flooded areas, there's no way one of the safe boats is gonna make it down a flooded street, they have 500gpm pumps with some sort of deck gun mounted as well as a 13/4 wye to stretch two lines off, there hoping that these boats can get to the areas that they couldn't reach with sandy where the houses burned. I guess it is kind of like mounting a portable pump to a flat bottom boat .

 

[68jk09]

A portable pump was standard equipment in the Zodiac boats back in the start of the FDNY Scuba Unit in  R*2 back in the early '80s....it had a flotation collar to allow FFs to float it for under pier op's......also the "trash pump" aka "de watering pump" came into play w/a length of 1 3/4 w/washdown tip in place to hit Fires in unaccesible places like boatyard's & brush area's remote from hydrant's.