A severe type of food poisoning caused by eating contaminated fish

That part of the water which is diverted from the main stream of a current and as a result flows in the opposite direction.

A set of radio, sound, and visual signals designed to aid in communications between vessels without language problems. It can be used with Morse Code, with signal pennants, and by spoken code letters.

The stationary seating surface, the inlet of a valve.

A marine hardware store.

A person or firm performing a consolidation service for others. The consolidator takes advantage of lower full carload (FCL) rates, and savings are passed on to shippers.

A single outlet or limited number of outlets in a building used to connect tools or equipment to the air system.

Light displacement tonnage, lost during transhipment

Literally, the act of complying with rules and regulations.

On a square-rigged ship, a light weather sail set next above the royal in fair weather.

Small, circular sheets of newly-formed ice that do not impede navigation.

Short lengths of line attached to the sail used to tie the extra sail out of the way when reefing.

Another term for a marine railway.

The document required by the carrier or freight forwarders to obtain (besides the data needed) authorization to issue and sign the air waybill in the name of the shipper.

Heavy-weather practice of pouring oil on the sea so as to form a film on the surface, thus preventing the seas from breaking. To smooth out some difficulty.

A large balloon shaped lightweight sail used when running or reaching. Spinnakers are made of cloth very similar to that used for parachutes, which is why you may also hear them called chutes, or kites.

In maritime warfare, a declaration published by a power forbidding sea-borne trade with an enemy.

A term describing the seamen of a British warship.

A line drawn on a chart, as a result of a bearing, along which the boat is positioned

The rod connecting the disc to the lever on a valve.