Association Internationale de Signalisation Maritime (see also IALA).

A device used to control the voltage in a fluorescent lamp.

Joint Venture

If you are in the Northern Hemisphere, a storm's center and direction of travel can be determined by using Buys Ballot's Law. To do this, face the wind and extend your right arm out at about 90

The amount of heat required to raise the temperature of a unit of water, at or near the temperature of maximum density, one degree Celsius (or Centigrade [C]); expressed as a "small calorie" (the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram ...

Embrittlement of low-carbon steels resulting from precipitation of solute carbon at existing dislocations and from precipitation hardening of the steel caused by differences in the solid solubility of carbon in ferrite at different temperatures. Quench-ag ...

Belize (Flag)

Dropping Outward (Sea) Pilot (time). When the vessel leaves the last discharge port. It is often the time used as the end of a Voyage charter.

The power output of a power plant that can be continuously produced.

Corrosion testing in a copper-sulfate solution containing sulfuric acid. Used to detect the susceptibility of stainless steel to intergranular corrosion.

Annual Cargo Refrigeration System survey.

Bulk Carrier Strengthened for Heavy Cargoes, Nos 1&3 Holds may be empty.

A unit of length named for A.J. Angstome, a Swedish spectoscopist, used in measuring electromagnetic radiation equal to 0.000,000,01 centimeters.

Saturday P.M.

London Interbank Offered Rate

Administrative Procedure Act.

The inverse of electrochemical impedance.

Demolished

A crane with a cantilever which is incapable of luffing. The cargo hook is fixed on the out end of the cantilever or hanged on a movable carriage along it.

Low Pressure