List of aquatic navigation terms
Below is a glossary of aquatic navigation terms with definition, examples, transcription, and translations as used in the context of aquatic navigation
Bay (noun)
Bay: An area of the sea or a large lake, partly surrounded by a wide curve of land. In international fisheries law, it is a well-marked indentation whose penetration is in such proportion to the width of its mouth as to contain land-locked waters and constitute more than a mere curvature of the coast, with its area as large as, or larger than, that of the semi-circle whose diameter is a line drawn across the mouth of that indentation.... bay (read more)
Deckhand (noun)
Deckhand: A member of the navy or the merchant marine, or any sailor on a ship, below the rank of officer - Often lowest rank in the navy, below petty officer. A sailor who performs manual duties that do not require special training.... Deckhand (read more)
Discard (verb)
Discard: To get rid of fishery products that you no longer want or need... Discard (read more)
Fishing licence (noun)
Fishing licence: An administrative or legal mechanism employed by local governments to regulate fishing.... fishing licence (read more)
Fishing vessel (noun)
Fishing vessel: A fishing vessel shall be any boat, no matter its size, that is used in activities connected with fisheries.... fishing vessel (read more)
Fresh water (noun)
Fresh water: Naturally occurring liquid or frozen water with very low concentration in salt (less than 1,000 milligrams per litter of dissolved salts and salinity of less than 0.5), and low conductivity (conductivity often less than 200 µS/cm). It refers to all waters with low hardness including all inland aquatic systems such as streams, brooks, springs, rivers and lakes.... fresh water (read more)
League (noun)
League: A unit of length that is equal to about three miles on land and about three nautical miles (5.556 km) at sea. It is about 6,080 yards - or three nautical miles (each league being 6,080 feet). In SI units 1 unit is 5556 meters.... league (read more)
Licence (noun)
Licence: An official document that shows that permission has been given to carry out fishery activities, to own or to operate a fishery equipment.... licence (read more)
Low-tide elevation (noun)
Low-tide elevation: A naturally formed offshore land feature (such as mudflat, shoal, rock, or reef ) within a distance of not more than 12 nautical miles from the low-water line of the mainland or an island, which is surrounded by water and visible at low tide but submerged at high tide.... Low-tide elevation (read more)
Marine water (noun)
Marine water: naturally occurring water which contains a high concentration of dissolved salts, whose salinity is above 10g/l.... marine water (read more)
Merchant fleet (noun)
Merchant fleet: The total number of civilian ships of a country carrying either passengers or cargo (goods)... Merchant fleet (read more)
Merchant shipping (noun)
Merchant shipping: Branch of aquatic navigation, which deals with all means of transport of cargo or civilian passengers for hire (as a business) using merchant sea vessels whether privately or publicly owned. It is shipping which is involved in commerce (rather than defence, leisure, recreation, etc.)... merchant shipping (read more)
Mooring (noun)
Mooring: The anchors, cables, ropes, chains, etc. which serve to confine a vessel (ship, boat, etc.) to a place or to attach it to the bottom of the sea.... mooring (read more)
Nautical (adjective)
Nautical: Connected with ships, sailors and sailing, seamanship, marine navigation.... Nautical (read more)
Nautical mile (noun)
Nautical mile: A unit used in measuring distances at sea, equal to 1,852 metres (approximately 2,025 yards), or one minute of arc along the Earth’s equator.... nautical mile (read more)
Normal baseline (noun)
Normal baseline: The low-water line along the coast of a coastal State as marked on large-scale charts officially recognised by the coastal State. It is the starting point for measuring the breadth of the territorial sea of a coastal state. ... Normal baseline (read more)
Port of registry (noun)
Port of registry: The port at which the details of a ship or boat are officially recorded.... port of registry (read more)
Public waterways (noun)
Public waterways: State-owned watercourses and lakes.... public waterways (read more)
Roadstead (noun)
Roadstead: A partly-sheltered anchorage; a stretch of water near the shore where vessels may ride at anchor, but with less protection than a harbour. ... roadstead (read more)
Sea (noun)
Sea: The salt water that covers most of the earth's surface and surrounds its continents and islands ... sea (read more)
Ship (noun)
Ship: A large boat that carries people or goods across the seas or oceans... ship (read more)
Shipping (noun)
Shipping: The transport of goods by sea or some other means; business of carrying goods, especially in ship... shipping (read more)
Shrimp vessel (noun)
Shrimp vessel: A vessel designed or used for catching shrimps.... shrimp vessel (read more)
Storm (noun)
Storm: Very bad weather caracterised by strong, localised disturbance in a planet’s atmosphere that causes intense wind, precipitation, thunder, snow or other phenomena... Storm (read more)
Water (noun)
Water: a liquid without colour, smell or taste that falls as rain, is in lakes, rivers and seas, and is used for drinking, washing, etc... water (read more)
Water Police (noun)
Water Police: Police officers, usually a department of a larger police organization, under the authority of the State, responsible for the control and protection of water resources by monitoring and controlling water quality to prevent pollution, and ensure the application of laws concerning water resources. They do so by patrolling coastal seawaters, rivers, estuaries, harbors, lakes, canals or a combination of these, in watercrafts.... Water Police (read more)
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