Covered stands required by Regulations on Navigation in Panama Canal Waters onboard vessels with a breadth of 30.48m, and overall length of 274.4m or more.

A pilot boarding hoist raised by a power winch. The mechanical pilot hoist should be designed to operate as a moving ladder, or as a platform, to lift and lower one person on the side of the ship.

A rope ladder provided for a pilot to embark and disembark safely. The pilot ladders shall be located in a place clear from any possible ship discharges.

Usually small, fast and highly manoeuvrable craft used to deliver pilots from a harbour to vessels.

A person who is qualified to assist the master in navigation while entering or leaving a port.

Vertical member or column giving support to a deck girder, flat or similar structure: also called stanchion.

A hollow steel pipe installed into the sea bed by means of a piling hammer or vibrator and used as anchoring point.

Powders, insoluble in resins, which give the paints their colour, finish, and protective properties.

Hatch cover arrangement where a wheeled panel carriers another panel on its top during travel on the coaming.

The structure perpendicular to the shoreline to which a vessel is secured for the purpose of cargo loading and unloading.

The PICKUPCAT concept is based on dividing a vessel into two separate parts: a self-contained catamaran containing power, propulsion and steering functions and an interchangeable cargo-carrying unit.

Paints that dry solely by evaporation of solvent. The binder is unreactive.

Petroleum oils are characterised as either black or white (clean). Black oils include crude oil, furnace oil, fuel oil, tar and asphalt. White oils include benzene, kerosene, and gasoline.

A large reel with vertical axis used for storage of cables or flexible pipes onboard ofoffshore support vessels.

A gas evolved from petroleum. The main components of petroleum gases are hydrocarbons, but they may also contain other substances, such as hydrogen sulphide or lead alkyls as minor constituents.

Supports usually of flat plate, welded in a fore and aft direction between transverse deck beams to prevent distortion of the plating.

The method of evacuation from an oil rig in very severe weather conditions. The system consists of a cable car running between a specially equipped support vessel and the oil rig.

A manned, non-self-propelled submersible tethered unit consisting of one or more chambers. All of them are maintained at an internal pressure near one atmosphere.

A vehicle, container, flat, pallet, portable tank, package unit, or any other entity, etc., and loading equipment, or any part thereof, which belongs to the ship but is not fixed to it.

There are many different spaces and compartments on board a ship. Some of them could be quite empty, others can house some equipment, and therefore its different parts can be occupied by water in case of flooding.