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2. International Safety Management Code - Wikipedia

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   Regular management reviews; Also, the ship must be maintained in conformity with the provisions of relevant rules and regulations and with any additional requirements which may be established by the company. Comments from the auditor and/or audit body and from the ship are incorporated into the SMS by headquarters.

3. Place of refuge for ships - Wikipedia

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   A place of refuge for ships is a safe harbor or other secure place where a ship in distress can safely be taken to "prevent further damage or deterioration of the ship". [ 1 ] It is often claimed that under international maritime law , "no port may be closed to a foreign ship seeking shelter from storm or bad weather or otherwise compelled to ...

4. Moving scam - Wikipedia

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   A moving scam is a scam by a moving company in which the company provides an estimate, loads the goods, then states a much higher price to deliver the goods, ...

5. Damage control (maritime) - Wikipedia

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   locking off the damaged area from other ship's compartments; blocking the damaged area by wedging a box around a tear in the ship's hull, putting a band of thin sheet steel around a tear in a pipe, bound on by clamps. More complicated measures may be needed if a repair must take the pressure of the ship moving through the water. For example:

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7. Glossary of nautical terms (A–L) - Wikipedia

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   AAW An acronym for anti-aircraft warfare. aback (of a sail) Filled by the wind on the opposite side to the one normally used to move the vessel forward.On a square-rigged ship, any of the square sails can be braced round to be aback, the purpose of which may be to reduce speed (such as when a ship-of-the-line is keeping station with others), to heave to, or to assist moving the ship's head ...