The "ballast leg" of a voyage as differentiated from the "loaded leg." … [Read more...]
Ballast Movement
A voyage or voyage leg made without any paying cargo in a vessel’s tanks. To maintain proper stability, trim, or draft, seawater is usually carried during such movements. … [Read more...]
Dirty Ballast
A term applied to the seawater used for ballast when it is contaminated with the remnants or residue left in cargo tanks that previously carried crude oil or heavy persistent refined oils. … [Read more...]
Clean Ballast
The term applied to the seawater used for ballast when it is not contaminated by any oil and is carried in clean tanks. … [Read more...]
Ballast
Seawater taken into a vessel’s tanks in order to submerge the vessel to proper trim. Ballast can be taken into cargo tanks, double bottoms, fore and aft peak tanks and/or segregated ballast tanks, (SBT). … [Read more...]
Bail
To throw water out of a boat … [Read more...]
Backing (of wind)
Shift of wind direction in an anticlockwise manner, for example from north to west (opposite of veering) … [Read more...]
Bridge Team
The personnel on the bridge engaged in the navigation of the vessel. … [Read more...]
Brush discharge
A brush discharge is a diffuse discharge from a single blunt conductor that is more rapid than corona and releases more energy. It is possible for a brush discharge to ignite gases and vapours. … [Read more...]
Bonding
The connecting together of metal parts to ensure electrical continuity. … [Read more...]