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  2. Sea anchor - Wikipedia

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    An early wooden drogue. A sea anchor (also known as a parachute anchor, drift anchor, drift sock, para-anchor or boat brake) is a device that is streamed from a boat in heavy weather. Its purpose is to stabilize the vessel and to limit progress through the water. Rather than tethering the boat to the seabed with a conventional anchor, a sea ...

  3. Anchor windlass - Wikipedia

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    A windlass is a machine used on ships that is used to let-out and heave-up equipment such as a ship's anchor or a fishing trawl. On some ships, it may be located in a specific room called the windlass room. An anchor windlass is a machine that restrains and manipulates the anchor chain on a boat, allowing the anchor to be raised and lowered by ...

  4. Anchor handling tug supply vessel - Wikipedia

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    The ROV is operating a subsea torque spanner tool on a valve on the subsea structure. Anchor Handling Tug Supply (AHTS) vessels are mainly built to handle anchors for oil rigs, tow them to location, and use them to secure the rigs in place. AHTS vessels sometimes also serve as Emergency Response and Rescue Vessels (ERRVs) and as supply transports.

  5. Aiviq - Wikipedia

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    Aiviq. Aiviq in heavy seas on 30 December 2012. Aiviq is an American icebreaking anchor handling tug supply vessel (AHTS) owned by Offshore Surface Vessels LLC, part of Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO). The $200 million vessel was built in 2012 by North American Shipbuilding Company in Larose, Louisiana and LaShip in Houma, Louisiana.

  6. Anchor - Wikipedia

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    Holding ground is the area of sea floor that holds an anchor, and thus the attached ship or boat. [4] Different types of anchor are designed to hold in different types of holding ground. [5] Some bottom materials hold better than others; for instance, hard sand holds well, shell holds poorly. [6] Holding ground may be fouled with obstacles. [6]

  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 ...

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