Voyage Data Recorder

Boards fixed vertically to a boat to prevent leeway

The relative humidity above which the atmospheric corrosion rate of some metals increases sharply.

A type of electrical current, the direction of which is reversed at regular intervals or cycles; in the U.S. the standard is 120 reversals or 60 cycles per second; typically abbreviated as AC.

Deforming metal plastically under conditions of temperature and strain rote that induce strain hardening. Usually, hut not necessarily, conducted at room temperature. Contrast with hot working.

A person appointed by a company to perform an audit. In the UK auditors are Chartered.

An unpreventable and unpredictable event which could cause loss or damage to buildings, land,.

Using previous data to predict future.

National Maritime Enhancement Institute.

pattern barometer-Mercurial barometer with a fixed scale and cistern and which therefore requires only one adjustment before each reading.

Down or downwards; as in "Lay alow!"; opposite of Aloft.

In the UK the assured is a person (or people) who has entered into a life assurance contract with a.

Generally speaking the word amidships means in the middle portion of a vessel.

If a company's earnings figures are distorted either positively or negatively by exceptional one-off.

Electrotechnical Commission

The farthest aft.

In the US, the total number of shares which a corporation may issue, in accordance with the limits.

A type of electric generator that produces alternating current that matches an existing power source.

International Maritime Industries Forum

Working Paper