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Carefully (watch what you're doing).

Category:Sea Words

Seaward, a safe distance from shore; To keep an offing is to keep a safe distance away from the coast because of navigational dangers, fog, or other hazards.

Category:Sea Words

Barometer in which pressure is determined by balancing air pressure against the weight of a column of mercury in an evacuated glass tube.

Category:Meteorology

A security such as a bond or note with specified interest, representing a loan which is repayable at.

Category:Financial Terms

International Support Vessel Owners Association

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Letters, numbers, and other symbols placed on cargo packages to facilitate identification. Also known as marks.

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Drag Suction Hopper Dredger.

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A lamp where the light beam is focused 2 inches ahead of the lamp reducing the amount of light trapped in the fixture.

Category:Energy Terms

A solar energy concentrating technology that uses a linear receiver that tracks the focal area of a reflector or array of reflectors.

Category:Energy Terms

An instrument for measuring the extinction coefficient in water.

Category:Meteorology

Is a positive displacement rotary compressor.

Category:Sea Words

A term previously given to the shares of smaller companies traded far less frequently on the London.

Category:Financial Terms

CFS

Container

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DES

Delivered Ex Ship

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The distance a boat can move around its anchor. Swinging room is important because if other boats or objects are within a boat's swinging circle they may collide.

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A device used to keep a person afloat. Also called a life preserver, life vest, PFD or personal floatation device.

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Ropes used for hoisting gaffs and sails, and signal flags.

Category:Sea Words

The process of using heat that is rejected in one part of a cycle for another function or in another part of the cycle.

Category:Energy Terms

An arbitrage transaction applied on a futures market where the cash or spot price of for example,.

Category:Financial Terms

A large sail that is a cross between a spinnaker and a genoa. Hoisted without a pole, the tack is attached at the bottom of the headstay.

Category:Sea Words