Plating with dummy cathodes.

Water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt.

A legal document which records the obligation of one individual to pay a specified sum to another.

The potential of a corroding surface in an electrolyte, relative to a reference electrode. Also called rest potential, open circuit potential, or freely corroding potential.

Close beside a ship, wharf or jetty.

Hopper Barge

International Council of Cruise Lines

Marine Coastguard Agency

The current density, often referred to as limiting current density, that corresponds to the maximum transfer rate that a particular species can sustain because of the limitation of diffusion.

Automated Surface Observing System. A network of instrumented weather stations deployed primarily by the National Weather Service to make weather observations without operator involvement.

Unit Logistics Management System

The positive pole or electrode of an electrolytic cell, vacuum tube, etc. (see also sacrificial anode).

Liquefied Hazardous Gas

Ship equipped with her own cranes.

Whitening and loss of gloss of a usually organic coating caused by moisture. Also called blooming.

Describes the pressure drop through a component and is the difference in pressure between two points.

The ratio of light reflected by a surface to the light falling on it.

To sail large, with wind about four points abaft beam.

A combination of banking and insurance business. A high street bank, for example, might sell both.

The use of direct, diffuse, or reflected sunlight to provide supplemental lighting for building interiors.