Case Study
Brownie’s Third Lung
Crammed into the tight brow area of a 50-foot sport fishing boat with little room to move, Robert Carmichael narrowly avoided a chunk of flying metal that whizzed past his head. He was making final adjustments to a 3,000 psi compressed air system installed in the vessel’s brow. The metal that barely missed his own brow was part of a valve that broke and popped off one of the compressor lines. With full pressure in those lines for a system te