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78 relations: American Academy of Underwater Sciences, American English, Anchor, Anti-submarine warfare, Argo (oceanography), Argos system, Boat, Bowditch's American Practical Navigator, Boy, British English, Buoy anti-tank obstacle, Buoyancy, Danlayer, Day beacon, Decompression (diving), Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis, Diving shot, Dome, Emergency wreck buoy, Flare, Fog, Freight transport, George A. Stephen, International Arctic Buoy Program, Lanby buoy, Lateral mark, Leeway, Lifebuoy, Light, Light List, Lighthouse, Lightvessel, List of lights, Lobster fishing, Man overboard, Marina, Middle Dutch, Mooring (watercraft), MV Tricolor, Naval warfare, Navigation, Ocean data acquisition system, Old French, Outer space, Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, Piloting (navigation), PowerBuoy, Project Gutenberg, Pyrotechnics, Radio, ..., Rain, RP FLIP, Safe water mark, San Diego, Satellite phone, Scuba diving, Sea mark, Sea smoke, Self-locating datum marker buoy, Ship, Significant wave height, Smoke, Sonar, Sonobuoy, South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society, Spar buoy, Submarine, Surface marker buoy, Tide, Tsunami warning system, United States Coast Guard, United States Coast Pilot, Volga River, Wave power, Weather buoy, Weber-Stephen Products, Yacht, Yacht racing. Expand index (28 more) »
American Academy of Underwater Sciences
The American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS) is a group of Scientific organizations and individual members who conduct scientific and educational activities underwater.
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American English
American English (AmE, AE, AmEng, USEng, en-US), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.
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Anchor
An anchor is a device, normally made of metal, used to connect a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the craft from drifting due to wind or current.
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Anti-submarine warfare
Anti-submarine warfare (ASW, or in older form A/S) is a branch of underwater warfare that uses surface warships, aircraft, or other submarines to find, track and deter, damage, or destroy enemy submarines.
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Argo (oceanography)
Argo is an international program that uses profiling floats to observe temperature, salinity, currents, and, recently, bio-optical properties in the Earth's oceans; it has been operational since the early 2000s.
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Argos system
Argos is a satellite-based system which collects, processes and disseminates environmental data from fixed and mobile platforms worldwide.
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Boat
A boat is a watercraft of a large range of type and size.
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Bowditch's American Practical Navigator
The American Practical Navigator (colloquially often referred to as Bowditch), originally written by Nathaniel Bowditch, is an encyclopedia of navigation.
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Boy
A boy is a young male human, usually a child or adolescent.
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British English
British English is the standard dialect of English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom.
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Buoy anti-tank obstacle
Buoy is a British type of anti-tank obstacle used to block roads intended to impede enemy movement.
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Buoyancy
In physics, buoyancy or upthrust, is an upward force exerted by a fluid that opposes the weight of an immersed object.
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Danlayer
A danlayer was a type of vessel assigned to minesweeping flotillas during and immediately after World War II.
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Day beacon
A day beacon is an unlighted nautical sea mark.
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Decompression (diving)
The decompression of a diver is the reduction in ambient pressure experienced during ascent from depth.
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Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis
The Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis (officially abbreviated and trademarked as DART) system is a component of an enhanced tsunami warning system.
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Diving shot
A diving shot, or more formally, diving shot line is an item of diving equipment consisting of a weight (the shot), a line and a buoy.
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Dome
Interior view upward to the Byzantine domes and semi-domes of Hagia Sophia. See Commons file for annotations. A dome (from Latin: domus) is an architectural element that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere.
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Emergency wreck buoy
An Emergency wreck buoy is used to warn of a new wreck which has not yet been listed in maritime documents.
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Flare
A flare, also sometimes called a fusee, is a type of pyrotechnic that produces a brilliant light or intense heat without an explosion.
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Fog
Fog is a visible aerosol consisting of minute water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth's surface.
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Freight transport
Freight transport is the physical process of transporting commodities and merchandise goods and cargo.
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George A. Stephen
George A. Stephen, Sr. (February 26, 1921 – February 11, 1993) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, and the founder of Weber-Stephen Products Co., the company best known for the manufacturing of charcoal and gas grills.
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International Arctic Buoy Program
The International Arctic Buoy Program is headquartered at the Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, in Seattle, Washington, United States.
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Lanby buoy
Lanby buoy is a contraction of Large Automatic Navigation BuoY.
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Lateral mark
A lateral buoy, lateral post or lateral mark, as defined by the International Association of Lighthouse Authorities, is a sea mark used in maritime pilotage to indicate the edge of a channel.
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Leeway
Leeway is the amount of drift motion to leeward of an object floating in the water caused by the component of the wind vector that is perpendicular to the object’s forward motion.
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Lifebuoy
A lifebuoy, ring buoy, lifering, lifesaver, life donut, life preserver or lifebelt, also known as a "kisby ring" or "perry buoy", is a life saving buoy designed to be thrown to a person in the water, to provide buoyancy and prevent drowning.
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Light
Light is electromagnetic radiation within a certain portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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Light List
A Light List is a detailed list of navigational aids including lighthouses and other lighted navigation aids, unlighted buoys, radiobeacons, daybeacons, and racons.
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Lighthouse
A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a navigational aid for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.
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Lightvessel
A lightvessel, or lightship, is a ship which acts as a lighthouse.
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List of lights
A list of lights is a publication describing lighthouses and other aids to maritime navigation.
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Lobster fishing
Lobsters are widely fished around the world for their meat.
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Man overboard
"Man overboard!" is an exclamation given aboard a vessel to indicate that a member of the crew has fallen off of the ship into the water and is in need of immediate rescue.
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Marina
A marina (from Spanish, Portuguese and Italian: marina, "coast" or "shore") is a dock or basin with moorings and supplies for yachts and small boats.
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Middle Dutch
Middle Dutch is a collective name for a number of closely related West Germanic dialects (whose ancestor was Old Dutch) spoken and written between 1150 and 1500.
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Mooring (watercraft)
A mooring refers to any permanent structure to which a vessel may be secured.
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MV Tricolor
MV Tricolor was a 50,000 tonne Norwegian-flagged vehicle carrier built in 1987, notable for having been involved in three English Channel collisions within a fortnight.
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Naval warfare
Naval warfare is combat in and on the sea, the ocean, or any other battlespace involving major body of water such as a large lake or wide river.
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Navigation
Navigation is a field of study that focuses on the process of monitoring and controlling the movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another.
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Ocean data acquisition system
An ocean data acquisition system (ODAS) is a set of instruments deployed at sea to collect as much meteorological and oceanographic data as possible.
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Old French
Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; Modern French: ancien français) was the language spoken in Northern France from the 8th century to the 14th century.
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Outer space
Outer space, or just space, is the expanse that exists beyond the Earth and between celestial bodies.
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Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) is one of two tsunami warning centers that are operated by NOAA in the United States.
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Piloting (navigation)
Piloting (on water) or pilotage (in the air also British English) or land navigation is navigating, using fixed points of reference on the sea or on land, usually with reference to a nautical chart, aeronautical chart or topographic map, to obtain a fix of the position of the vessel, aircraft or land traveler with respect to a desired course or location.
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PowerBuoy
PowerBuoy is a power station for generating electrical energy from wave power.
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Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks".
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Pyrotechnics
Pyrotechnics is the science of using materials capable of undergoing self-contained and self-sustained exothermic chemical reactions for the production of heat, light, gas, smoke and/or sound.
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Radio
Radio is the technology of using radio waves to carry information, such as sound, by systematically modulating properties of electromagnetic energy waves transmitted through space, such as their amplitude, frequency, phase, or pulse width.
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Rain
Rain is liquid water in the form of droplets that have condensed from atmospheric water vapor and then becomes heavy enough to fall under gravity.
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RP FLIP
R/P FLIP (FLoating Instrument Platform) is an open ocean research platform owned by the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) and operated by Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
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Safe water mark
Examples of Safe Water Marks A Safe Water Mark, as defined by the International Association of Lighthouse Authorities, is a sea mark used in maritime pilotage to indicate the end of a channel.
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San Diego
San Diego (Spanish for 'Saint Didacus') is a major city in California, United States.
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Satellite phone
A satellite telephone, satellite phone, or satphone is a type of mobile phone that connects to orbiting satellites instead of terrestrial cell sites.
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Scuba diving
Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving where the diver uses a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (scuba) which is completely independent of surface supply, to breathe underwater.
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Sea mark
A sea mark, also seamark and navigation mark, is a form of aid to navigation and pilotage that identifies the approximate position of a maritime channel, hazard, or administrative area to allow boats, ships, and seaplanes to navigate safely.
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Sea smoke
Sea smoke, frost smoke, or steam fog, is fog which is formed when very cold air moves over warmer water.
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Self-locating datum marker buoy
A self-locating datum marker buoy (SLDMB) is a drifting surface buoy designed to measure surface ocean currents.
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Ship
A ship is a large watercraft that travels the world's oceans and other sufficiently deep waterways, carrying passengers or goods, or in support of specialized missions, such as defense, research and fishing.
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Significant wave height
In physical oceanography, the significant wave height (SWH or Hs) is defined traditionally as the mean wave height (trough to crest) of the highest third of the waves (H1/3).
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Smoke
Smoke is a collection of airborne solid and liquid particulates and gases emitted when a material undergoes combustion or pyrolysis, together with the quantity of air that is entrained or otherwise mixed into the mass.
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Sonar
Sonar (originally an acronym for SOund Navigation And Ranging) is a technique that uses sound propagation (usually underwater, as in submarine navigation) to navigate, communicate with or detect objects on or under the surface of the water, such as other vessels.
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Sonobuoy
A sonobuoy (a portmanteau of sonar and buoy) is a relatively small buoy (typically, in diameter and long) expendable sonar system that is dropped/ejected from aircraft or ships conducting anti-submarine warfare or underwater acoustic research.
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South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society
The South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society (SPUMS) is a primary source of information for diving and hyperbaric medicine physiology worldwide.
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Spar buoy
A spar buoy is a tall, thin buoy that floats upright in the water and is characterized by a small water plane area and a large mass.
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Submarine
A submarine (or simply sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater.
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Surface marker buoy
A surface marker buoy, SMB or simply a blob is a buoy used by scuba divers, with a line, to indicate the diver's position to their surface safety boat while the diver is underwater.
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Tide
Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and the Sun and the rotation of Earth.
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Tsunami warning system
A tsunami warning system (TWS) is used to detect tsunamis in advance and issue warnings to prevent loss of life and damage.
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United States Coast Guard
The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is a branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the country's seven uniformed services.
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United States Coast Pilot
United States Coast Pilot is a nine-volume American navigation publication distributed yearly by the Office of Coast Survey, a part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Ocean Service.
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Volga River
The Volga (p) is the longest river in Europe.
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Wave power
Wave power is the capture of energy of wind waves to do useful work – for example, electricity generation, water desalination, or pumping water.
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Weather buoy
Weather buoys are instruments which collect weather and ocean data within the world's oceans, as well as aid during emergency response to chemical spills, legal proceedings, and engineering design.
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Weber-Stephen Products
The Weber-Stephen Products LLC is a privately held American manufacturer of charcoal, gas and electric outdoor grills with related accessories.
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Yacht
A yacht is a watercraft used for pleasure or sports.
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Yacht racing
Yacht racing is a form of sport involving sailing yachts and larger sailboats, as distinguished from dinghy racing.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buoy
