An area of the North Atlantic east of the Bahamas where a powerful eddy in the water causes Sargasso weed to collect in vast quantities and float on the surface.

Tool used for transferring course and bearing to and from the compass rose on a chart

Coasting Service in Maldives.

Coasting Service in Philippines.

Under letters of credit, one or more shipments are allowed by the phrase "partial shipments permitted."

Small masses of drift ice with waterways in which a vessel can sail.

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For a wind turbine, the ratio of the speed of the tip of a turbine blade for which the power coefficient is at maximum.

A chemical compound produced in a reaction between ethanol and isobutylene (a petroleum-derived by-product of the refining process). ETBE has characteristics superior to other ethers: low volatility, low water solubility, high octane value, and a large re ...

Moving through the water.

(1)An isothermal reversible reaction in which a liquid solution is converted into two or more intimately mixed solids on cooling, the number of solids formed being the same as the number of components in the system. (2) An alloy having the composition ind ...

National Technical Information Service.

International Maritime Convention on Communication by Satellite

Material Safety Data Sheet

CG Digital Data Management System.

Liner Shipping Agreements.

Wind with a speed between 56 and 63 knots (64 and 72 mph); Beaufort scale number 11.

A galvanic cell caused by a difference in metal ion concentration at two locations on the same metal surface.

A modification of the dew cell used in radiosonde equipment.

A term previously given to the shares of smaller companies least traded on the London Stock.