American Society for Testing and Materials.

A sunshine recorder of the type in which the time scale is supplied by the motion of the sun. It consists essentially of a spherical lens which bums an image of the sun upon a specialty prepared card.

Water Line

Vessel Traffic Management Services

The angle between true south and the point on the horizon directly below the sun.

Bulk

Geographic Information System

United Nations

National Economic Council

A machine having a vertically mounted warping end on which a rope may be wound under power, but not stored.

The fibrous material remaining after the extraction of juice from sugarcane; often burned by sugar mills as a source of energy.

Petroleum Association of Japan

Estimated Time of ReadinessTime at which the ship will be ready to load, for instance when the crew has to clean the holds first.

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.

A basic equation in night visual range theory, relating the illuminance of a point source of light to distance and the transmissivity of the atmosphere.

(1) An old term to denote a lazy sailor who is of little use on the ship. (2) Damaged goods, especially provisions.

Hazardous Materials

Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.

Steam generating units used aboard ship to provide steam for propulsion (and) for heating and other auxiliary purposes.

An energy storage device composed of one or more electrolyte cells.