Dehumidifier Danger: Don't let this happen to you

10:31 PM Thu 13 Jan 2011 GMT

'Don’t let this happen to you...' .

Britain's premier yachting magazine Yachting Monthly has drawn attention to the danger of dehumidifiers left unattended on yachts. They cited recently a fire had destroyed an unattended Moody 54, which had been laid up for the winter in G?cek, one of the Turkey's most fashionable yachting and holiday resorts. Nigel Dean, who runs a yacht management company in G?cek, was alerted to smoke coming from the dorade vents of a yacht in his boatyard. 'The dehumidifier, a compressor type, had been placed on the galley work surface,' he said. ?It was turned on in the mornings ...

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