Maritime Glossary 1 - OHM

To evacuate crew and passengers from a vessel following a distress

• Backing (of wind)

• Abandon vessel

• Blind sectors

• Berth

Ladder attached to platform at vessel's side with flat steps and handrails

enabling persons to embark / disembark from water or shore

• Beach (to)

• Adrift

• Accommodation ladder

• Boarding speed

Floating, not controlled, without a clearly determinable direction

• Adrift

• Beach (to)

• Boarding speed

• Air draft

The height from the waterline to the highest point of the vessel

• Air draft

• Blind sectors

• Abandon vessel

• Boarding arrangements

Place on deck, in mess rooms, etc., assigned to crew and passengers

where they have to meet according to the muster list when the

corresponding alarm is released or announcement made

• Bob-cat

• Accommodation ladder

• Assembly station

• Briefing

Shift of wind direction in an anticlockwise manner, in time (opposite of

veering)

• Adrift

• Boarding arrangements

• Abandon vessel

• Backing (of wind)

To run a vessel up on a beach to prevent its sinking in deep water

• Backing (of wind)

• Briefing

• Beach (to)

• Air draft

1: A sea room to be kept for safety around a vessel, rock, platform, etc..

2: The place assigned to a vessel when anchored or lying alongside a pier, etc.

• Beach (to)

• Berth

• Blast

• Bob-cat

A sound signal made with the whistle of the vessel

• Beach (to)

• Air draft

• Blast

• Briefing

Areas which cannot be scanned by the radar of the vessel because they are

shielded by parts of its superstructure, masts, etc, or shore obstructions

• Blind sectors

• Berth

• Boarding arrangements

• Boarding speed