Best Manufacturing Practices.(US navy program).

The weight of oxygen taken up mainly as a result of the oxidation of the constituents of a sample of water by biological action; expressed as the number of parts per million of oxygen taken up by the sample from water originally saturated with air, usuall ...

A fixed-length group of bits representing the large data element handled as a unit by a computer. Word length is determined by the capacity of the CPU registers.

On the deck (not over it - see ALOFT)

A small jib set high on the headstay of a double headsail rig.

A block of wood or iron, placed through the hole in the heel of a mast, and resting on the trestle-trees of the mast below. This supports the mast. Also, a wooden pin, tapered, used in splicing large ropes, in opening eyes, etc.

Fast Rescue Craft

The U.S. Customs' "Automated Manifest System."

British Rig Owners Association

Condition Assessment Program. Structural assessment program devised by the classification societies ABS, LR, DNV.

Federal Water Pollution Control Act

Construction made by placing several platform flats end to end in a ship.

A method to trap liquids or gases by causing them to penetrate into the absorbent material.

The angle between true south and the point on the horizon directly below the sun.

Vessel Safety and Operations Audit

The play or loose motion in an instrument due to the clearance existing between mechanically contacting parts.

Format for digital cartographic data

Free Despatch

Damages for Detention

Low Pressure