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Shore power or shore supply is the provision of shoreside electrical power to a ship at berth while its main and auxiliary engines are shut down. [1] While the term denotes shore as opposed to off-shore, it is sometimes applied to aircraft or land-based vehicles (such as campers, heavy trucks with sleeping compartments and tour buses), which may plug into grid power when parked for idle reduction.
Skimboarding is a sport where people use a wooden board to slide fast on water. Stone skipping, is a sport where people compete for the number of times and length that they can skip a stone on the water's surface. Surfing, a sport where an individual uses a board to stand up and ride on the face of a wave.
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Shore power has become a major focus of the cruise industry’s sustainability efforts. Here's how it works.
Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic sports, [1] with varied distance events in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle, and individual ...
Australian Swimming Championships, included as part of the swimming program as multi-class events, for example 2019 Australian Swimming Championships; Telkom SA National Aquatic Championships, included as part of the swimming program as multi-class events, open to international competition
This year's preview of the swimming season with the top 10 boys and girls teams and 20 swimmers to watch this season. Shore Conference swimming 2024 outlook. Team rankings, 20 All-Shore Watch swimmers
Cold ironing mitigates harmful emissions from diesel engines by connecting a ship's load to a more environmentally friendly, shore-based source of electrical power. An alternative is to run auxiliary diesels either on gas (LNG or LPG) or extra low sulphur distillate fuels, however if noise pollution is a problem, then cold ironing becomes the ...