one nearby boat gas fuel explosion....you realize the real danger....early in my sailing ownerships...had experience leaking gas fuel dripping on water jacked muffler ..noticed when engine shutdown to begin distance race,,fuel smell,,it didnt take long for a crew of 11 to get pails..riggers buckets ,etc,and drown whole engine and hot muffler...auto pumps activated &water &fuel pumped overboard..left gas spill on water which SAR was happy to clean up...reason for event discovered later fuel tank float rubbed bottom of tank until wore hole in tank bottom...crew really had it together...one half did engine drowning..other half..hung over bow to encourage fwd pumps to engage ..REALLY LUCKY..FUME DETECTER ALSO DEFECTIVE........had manya4s after that with quality fail safe fume detecters...now a hign torque diesel user
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