Megabyte

Navigational Electronic Chart System Association

Working Paper

To cast off or untie. (See BEND.)

Naval Engineering CAD

Tons Per Centimeter (Immersion)

Patrol/Work Boat.

United States Department of Agriculture

Very High Frequency. (30-300 MHz) Designate also the radio communication apparatus using this frequency. It reaches only slightly beyond the horizon, except in favourable circumstances where transmission up to several hundred miles are possible.

Land Earth Station

Universal Resource Locator

Inboard

Environmental Impact Assessment

Intermediate Fuel Oil

Marine Assistance Request Broadcasts.

Office of Foreign Assets Control

International Lifeboat Federation

Offshore Engineering Department.

Inland Water Service of Goa.

High Speed Craft. Mostly ferries, catamaran