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2. Anchor - Wikipedia

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   An anchor is a device, normally made of metal, used to secure a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the craft from drifting due to wind or current. The word derives from Latin ancora, which itself comes from the Greek ἄγκυρα (ankȳra). [2][3] Anchors can either be temporary or permanent.

3. Mooring (oceanography) - Wikipedia

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   Mooring as deployed in Fram Strait with top buoy, a CTD -sensor, two rotor current meters, acoustic release and train wheels as anchor. A mooring in oceanography is a collection of devices connected to a wire and anchored on the sea floor. It is the Eulerian way of measuring ocean currents, since a mooring is stationary at a fixed location.

4. Breakwater (structure) - Wikipedia

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   A breakwater structure is designed to absorb the energy of the waves that hit it, either by using mass (e.g. with caissons), or by using a revetment slope (e.g. with rock or concrete armour units). In coastal engineering, a revetment is a land-backed structure whilst a breakwater is a sea-backed structure (i.e. water on both sides).

5. Suction caisson - Wikipedia

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   Designed for supporting structures in deep waters. The dimension for the top suctions caisson is 8 m × ⌀1 m and for the bottom suctions caisson is 1 m × ⌀5 m. Suction caissons (also referred to as suction anchors, suction piles or suction buckets) are a form of fixed platform anchor in the form of an open bottomed tube embedded in the ...

6. Single buoy mooring - Wikipedia

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   Single anchor leg mooring (SALM), which can be used in both shallow and deep water. [1] see Thistle SALM as an example. Vertical anchor leg mooring, which is seldom used. [1] Two types of single point mooring tower: Jacket type, which has a jacket piled to the seabed with a turntable on top which carries the mooring gear and pipework [1]

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

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   Also anchor cable. A chain connecting a ship to an anchor. anchor detail A group of men who handle ground tackle when the ship is anchoring or getting under way. anchor home When the anchor is secured aboard the ship for sea; i.e. when it is not deployed. Typically rests just outside the hawsepipe on the outer side of the hull, at the bow of a ...