Disembarkation

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• Caulking: Caulking is the process of sealing the joints or seams in a vessel's wooden hull or deck to make it watertight. This is done by driving a flexible material, such as oakum (hemp fiber soaked in pine tar), into the seams between planks or dec ... Read More >>
• Doldrums: Doldrums refer to a frequently windless area near the Equator, where the northeast and southeast trade winds converge. The Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) is a belt of low pressure which circles the Earth generally near the equator w ... Read More >>
• Redundancy: In maritime context, redundancy refers to the duplication of critical systems or components on a vessel to ensure that in the event of a failure or malfunction, there is a backup system or component that can take over and maintain the vesse ... Read More >>