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  2. File:Infantry Assault Boat Training Program.pdf - Wikipedia

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  3. Able seaman - Wikipedia

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    Areas frequently in need of such maintenance include the hull, decks, superstructure, cargo gear, and smoke stack. Dayworkers also frequently perform maintenance on lifeboats, rescue boats and life rafts, and emergency and damage control gear. For many vessels, being a dayworker is a position granted to senior ABs, since it generally allows ...

  4. Seakeeping - Wikipedia

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    Excessive ship motions may hinder the vessel's ability to complete its mission such as the deployment and recovery of small boats or aircraft. A measure of an individual's ability to complete a specific task while on board a moving ship is the motion-induced interruptions [2] (MII). It gives an indication of the number of events in which a ...

  5. International Certificate of Competence - Wikipedia

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    The ICC is a product of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Inland Water Committee (UN ECE IWC) Resolution 40 (hereafter called Resolution 40). [3] This states that the ICC may be issued by a government of one state to its nationals and residents who may be on the waters of a foreign state, on condition that both accept the requirements and conditions set out in Resolution 40.

  6. File:Self-righting boat design.pdf - Wikipedia

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  7. Deep wading - Wikipedia

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    The Tiger was the first tank to come with deep fording ability as designed, although the earlier Tauchpanzer, a modification of the Panzer III and Panzer IV, was designed to drive on the sea-bed, part of the German preparations for Operation Sea Lion, the planned invasion of Britain in 1941. A long, flexible rubber hose with a floating buoy on ...

  8. Personal watercraft - Wikipedia

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    Personal watercraft boat conversion kits exist as Waveboats. [2] The United States Coast Guard defines a personal watercraft, amongst other criteria, as a jet-drive boat less than 12 feet (3.7 m) long. [3] There are many larger "jetboats" not classed as PWCs, some more than 40 feet (12 m) long.

  9. Ship stability - Wikipedia

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    The higher the angular momentum, the greater the resisting force of the gyro to external torque (in this case more ability to cancel boat roll). A gyroscope has three axes: a spin axis, an input axis, and an output axis. The spin axis is the axis about which the flywheel is spinning and is vertical for a boat gyro.