{"id":766,"date":"2021-05-05T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mercator.nfdtesting.uk\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/2021\/05\/05\/viking-life-saving-equipment-acquires-hydropen\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T21:53:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T20:53:48","slug":"viking-life-saving-equipment-acquires-hydropen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/news\/equipment\/viking-life-saving-equipment-acquires-hydropen\/","title":{"rendered":"Viking Life-Saving Equipment acquires HydroPen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HydroPen was founded in 2016 by chief executive Martin Winkel and chief technology officer and system inventor, Jesper Rosenfeldt Hansen. Their aim was to apply innovative, safe and user-friendly technology to revolutionise firefighting on board container vessels.<\/p>\n<p>The International Union of Marine Insurance has called for ship design and fire-fighting equipment improvements on ultra large container ships and the acquisition follows a fire in April on board a 4,200TEU container ship off Malaysia which took 50 local firefighters to bring under control.<\/p>\n<p>Viking first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/news101\/ships-equipment\/viking-signs-major-hydropen-contract\" target=\"_blank\">signed a deal with HydroPen<\/a> in 2017 after the system won that year\u2019s Danish Tech Challenge accelerator prize. \u201cFrom its official launch at SMM 2018, Viking became HydroPen\u2019s exclusive distributor, going on to support orders from some of the industry\u2019s biggest names,\u201d said Lasse Boesen, senior product manager, Viking.<\/p>\n<p>Attached to a ship\u2019s hose and raised on a telescopic arm by a single crew member, water pressure alone powers HydroPen\u2019s \u2018drill and spray\u2019 nozzle to penetrate a container door before switching to spray mode to extinguish a fire with water, foam or CO2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce crews familiarise themselves with HydroPen there is no going back,\u201d said Lasse Boesen. \u201cSince its introduction, the system has already proven itself in live firefighting situations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viking Life-Saving Equipment has acquired HydroPen, the company behind the HydroPen container firefighting solution currently in use on hundreds of ships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-equipment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}