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Maritime English Visual Glossary

UNIT 8

a device
usually
consisting
of tanks of
air
or oxygen a
breathing nd aparat de
1 apparatus a mouthpiec respirat
e, that
enables the
wearer
to breath in 
difficult
conditions

a person or
object badly
affected by victima/
2 casualty an event or avarie
situation.

an instance
of one
moving
object or
person
3 collision striking
coliziune
violently
against
another.
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(of a boat)
be a se
4 capsize overturned rasturna
in the water.

a
connecting
band or pipe flansa/
5 collar in colier/ saiba
machinery.

a feeling of
being
sleepy and somnolenta
6 drowsiness lethargic;
/moleseala
sleepiness

The duct
7 duct keel
keel is a
culoar kila
plated
box/tunnele
d keel
allowing
passage
right
forward. It
provides
additional
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buoyancy,
together
with a
through
passageway
for cables
and
pipelines
running in
the fore and
aft
direction.

are devices
that make it
possible to
monitor and
control the
flow of a
substance
discharge supapa de
8 valve
from a
source and golire
through
some type
of
circulation
system.

1. a
bolt or bar
with an eye
at the end surub cu
9 eyebolt for
attaching a ochi
hook or ring
to.

1. a
pair of soft
fabric
1 earmuff
coverings,
connected
casti
protectie
0 by a band
across the
urechi
top of the
head, that
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are worn
over the
ears to
protect
them from
cold or
noise.

a navigable
channel in a
river or senal
11 fairway harbour navigabil

an overflow
of a large
amount of
water
beyond its
1 flood
normal
inundatie
limits,
2 especially
over what is
normally
dry land.

basic
1 grounding
training or
instruction pregatire
3 in a subject
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special
equipment
1 harnesses
used for
climbing, ham
4 entering in
narrow
spaces

1 hazard
a danger or
risk. risc
5

a rope or
line used for
life-saving,
typically
one thrown
to rescue
1 lifelines
someone in
difficulties
coarda de
6 in water or
one used by
salvare

sailors to
secure
themselves
to a boat.
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 piece of
equipment
consisting
of a series
of bars or
steps
between
1 ladder
two upright
scara
lengths of
7 wood,
metal, or
rope, used
for climbing
up or down
something.

the processo
f providing 
people to do
a job, or
1 to man
the number 
of people w a arma
8 ho
are availabl
e to do
a job:
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an
1 mishap
unprevented
, unlucky
pana
9 accident. avarie

take apart (a
piece of
machinery
or
2 overhaul
equipment) inspectie/re
in order to
0 examine it
vizie
and repair it
if necessary.

the action of
getting rid
2 purge
of
purjare
something(s
1 team,
liquid)
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a stage or
set of stages
or
2 staging
temporary
platforms schela
2 arranged as
a support
for workers

the
condition of
being
protected
2 safety
from or
siguranta
unlikely to
3 cause
danger, risk,
or injury.

the skill,
techniques,
2 seamanshi or practice
of handling marinarie
4 p a ship or
boat at sea
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a nonreturn 
valve in
a pump suct
ion to
2 suction prevent the
pump draini
priza de
5 valve ng or
depriming
fund

when not in
service

the alternate
rising and
falling of
the sea,
usually
twice in
2 tides
each lunar
day at a maree
6 particular
place, due
to the
attraction of
the moon
and sun.

not
2 anticipated
unforeseen or predicted neprevazut
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