A mooring winch with the additional ability to haul or render a mooring rope within selectable limits without direct human intervention.

The process or technologies for producing energy by harnessing the temperature differences (thermal gradients) between ocean surface waters and that of ocean depths. Warm surface water is pumped through an evaporator containing a working fluid in a closed ...

Same as atmometer.

The purpose for which useful energy or work is consumed.

Referring to alterations in the environment due to the presence or activities of humans.

Recreational Boating Safety.

A technique commonly used to prepare metallographic specimens, in which a high polish is produced by making the specimen the anode in an electrolytic cell, where preferential dissolution at high points smooths the surface.

The weight by which a shipment is less than the minimum weight.

The maximum heat output (in Btu per hour) released by a burner with a stable flame and satisfactory combustion.

Marine eCommerce Association

A unit of energy per unit area commonly employed in radiation theory. Equal to one gram-calorie per square centimeter.

Special Periodical Survey of Hull

The weight prescribed by agreement between carrier and shipper for goods shipped in certain packages or in a certain number.

A small balloon used to determine the height of the cloud base. The height can be computed from the ascent velocity of the balloon and the time required for its disappearance into the cloud.

Efficient Deck Hand.

International Longshoremen's Association

(1) A metal corroding under the control of a surface reaction product. (2) The state of the metal surface characterized by low corrosion rates in a potential region that is strongly oxidizing for the metal. (3) The state of a metal when its behavior is mu ...

Continuous longitudinals fastened under the deck.

A condition that results from an imbalance between the number of protons and the number of electrons in a substance.

Embrittlement of alloy steels caused by holding within or cooling slowly through a temperature range just below the transformation range. Embrittlement is the result of the segregation at grain boundaries of impurities such as arsenic, antimony, phosphoru ...