1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its eighty-eighth
session (24 November to 3 December 2010), approved amendments to the
Revised Guidelines for the approval of equivalent water-based fire-extinguishing
systems for machinery spaces and cargo pump-rooms (MSC/Circ.1165), as set out in the annex,
concerning redundant means of pumping, and ceiling and bilge nozzles
(paragraph 17 of, and paragraph 1.3 of appendix B to, the annex to MSC/Circ.1165), prepared by the Sub-Committee
on Fire Protection, at its fifty-fourth session.
2 Member Governments are invited to use the amendments
when applying MSC/Circ.1165 and to
bring the unified interpretations to the attention of all parties
concerned.