To evacuate crew and passengers from a vessel following a distress

Ladder attached to platform at vessel side with flat steps and handrails enabling persons to embark/disembark from water or shore

UNCONTROLLED MOVEMENT AT SEA UNDER the influence of current, tide or wind

The height from the waterline to the highest point of the vessel

Place on deck, in mess rooms, etc assigned to crew and passengers where they to meet according to the muster list when the corresponding alarm is released or announcement made

Shift of wind direction in an anticlockwise manner, for example from north to west

To run a vessel up on a beach to prevent its sinking in deep water

A sea room to be kept for safety around a vessel,rock, platform, etc The place assigned to a vessel when anchored or lying alongside a oier

A whistle signal made by the vessel

An area which cannot be scanned by the ship’s radar because it is shieded by parts of the superstructure , masts, etc

All equipment, such as pilot ladder, accommodation ladder, hoist,etc, necessary for a safe transfer of the pilot

The speed of a vessel adjusted to that of a pilot boat at which the pilot can safely embark/disembark

A mini-caterpillar with push-blade used for the careful distribution of loose goods in cargo holds of bulk carries

Concise explanatory information to crew and/or passengers

Chain connecting a vessel to the anchor wire or rope primarily used for mooring ship One, hundred fathoms or one tenth of a nautical mile

To turnover

A seamark a buoy, indicating the North, East south or west the cardinal points from a fixed point such as a wreck

The four main points of the compass north, east, south and west

Here: case of death in an accident or shipping disaster

To make sure that equipment etc. is in proper condition or that everything is correct and safe To regulate motion of a cable, rope or wire when it is running out too fast

A method of towing vessels through polar ice by means icebreaking tugs with a special stern notch suited to receive hold the bow of the vessel to be towed

To decrease the distance to the vessel ahead by increasing one s own speed

States whether different goods can be safely stowed together in one cargo spaces

A vessel severely restricted by her draught in by her draft her ability to deviate from the course followed in relation to the available depth and width of navigable watrr

The intended direction of movement of a vessel through the water

that course which a vessel makes good over ground, after allowing for the effect of currents, tidal streams, and leeway caused by wind and sea

Crude Oil washing. A SYSTEM of cleaning the cargo tanks by washing them with the cargo of crude oil during discharge

Closet Point of Approach/time to closet Poing of Approach limit as defined by the observer to give warning when a tracked target or targets will close to within these limits

An emergency reversal operation of the main engine to avoid a collision

A group of crew members trained for fighting flooding in the vessel

The most probable position of a search target at a given time The plane of reference to which all data as to the depth on charts are refernced

Vessel still flat, abandoned at sea

Port which a vessel is bound for

A vessel damaged or impaired in such a manner as to be incapable of proceeding on its voyage

Dto go from a vessel

To go aboard a vessel

A radio signal from a distressed vessel automatically directed to an MRCC Giving position, identification course and speed of the vessel as well as the nature if distress

Here, the verbal exchange of information on radio from ship to shore and/or ship to ship/ air craft about a distress/ urgency situation as defined in the relevant ITU radio regilations

Depth in water at which a vessel floats

Moving of an anchor over the sea bottom involuntarily because it is no longer preventing the movement of the vessel