Marine Environmental Protection.

Maritime Environment Protection CommitteeIMO branch dealing, among other, with the construction of tankers. The number of the meeting is often added to the acronym so that in the Autumn 2000 the next meeting will be MEPC46.

Marine Environmental Protection Committee (IMO)

Method of producing a chart in which the parallels of latitude and the meridians of longitude intersect each other at right angles.

The merchant ships on the official registers of any nation.

South American Common Market.

Same as mercury barometer.

A metallic element of atomic weight 200.6 1, unique (for metals) in that it remains liquid under all but very extreme temperatures.

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

A liquid-in-glass or liquid-in-metal thermometer using mercury as the liquid.

A common type of liquid-inglass thermometer, used, in meteorology, in psychrometers and as a maximum thermometer.

A liquid-in-metal thermometer in which mercury is enclosed in a steel envelope. The change in internal pressure caused by the temperature variation is measured by a Bourdon tube which is connected to the mercury by a capillary tube. This instrument is hig ...

A semi great circle joining the north and south poles. Known as lines of longitude, they cross the equator and all parallels of latitude at right angles.

A mythical creature, half human and half fish.

Merchant Marine Personnel Advisory Committee

1.Marine Evacuation System.2.Mobile Earth Station

Mesh is the number of openings in a square inch of screen or sieve. It is equal to the square of the number of strands of metal or plastic screening per lineal inch. Standard US mesh screen # 16 equates to a 1.19 millimeter particle diameter, mesh size #4 ...

Dining room facilities and kitchen for crew separate from the passenger dining room and kitchen.

Where meals are eaten