A ballast tank is a compartment within a boat, ship or other floating structure that holds water, which is used as ballast to provide hydrostatic stability...

Ballast is used in ships to provide moment to resist the lateral forces on the hull. Insufficiently ballasted boats tend to tip or heel excessively in...

Ballast water discharges by ships can have a negative impact on the marine environment. The discharge of ballast water and sediments by ships is governed...

organisms from one region to another and halt damage to the marine environment from ballast water discharge, by minimising the uptake and subsequent discharge...

A merchant navy or merchant marine is the fleet of merchant vessels that are registered in a specific country. On merchant vessels, seafarers of various...

Robert, Maya L. (2015). "Ballasting effects of smectite on aggregate formation and export from a natural plankton community". Marine Chemistry. 175: 18–27...

"Homeport: Ballast Water Management Program". United States Coast Guard. Retrieved December 8, 2016. "Marine Safety Center issues Ballast Water Management...

crew, and water ballast tanks. Problems with decompression sickness and overfishing of the pearl beds led to the abandonment of Sub Marine Explorer in Panama...

water inside larger ballast tanks. Marine engineers are responsible for the task of balancing and tracking the fuel and ballast water of a ship. Floating...

especially those from the front limbs, providing ballast to help with diving. Other adaptions in marine iguanas are blunt heads ("flat noses") and sharp...

including through their ballast, bilge, and fuel tanks. Oil spills can have devastating effects. In addition to being toxic to marine life, polycyclic aromatic...

contributed to the growing emissions. Ballast water discharges by ships can have a negative impact on the marine environment. Cruise ships, large tankers...

(VOCs), to oily waste water treatment and other water systems such as ballast water management systems. Wärtsilä was an important Finnish shipbuilder...

aquarium trade Ballast water transport Aquaculture Warming temperatures (see ocean heat content, sea surface temperature, and marine heat wave) Increased...

mechanisms of transporting marine organisms to other ocean environments are via hull fouling and the transfer of ballast water. Ballast water taken up at sea...

of invasive species by ballast water refers to the unintentional introduction of invasive species to new habitats via the ballast water carried by commercial...

to aquatic ecosystems. Ballast water discharges are believed to be the leading source of invasive species in Lebanese marine waters, thus posing public...

ships that take on water ballast to allow the load—usually another vessel—to be floated over the deck, whereupon the ballast is jettisoned and the ship's...

structure, drilling jack-up rigs and so on. These marine pumps can be serviced for cooling, circulating, ballast, general service(G/S), fire-fighting, boiler...

Ranger, describing a broken portlight (a porthole window) and water in the ballast control room, with discussions on how best to repair the damage. Ocean...

Corrosion in Ballast Tanks is the deterioration process where the surface of a ballast tank progresses from microblistering, to hydroscaletric electration...

Marine salvage is the process of recovering a ship and its cargo after a shipwreck or other maritime casualty. Salvage may encompass towing, lifting a...

The Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument (PMNM) (roughly /pɑːpɑːˈhɑːnaʊmoʊkuˌɑːkeɪ.ə/) is a World Heritage listed U.S. National Monument encompassing...

damage to aquatic ecosystems. Ballast water discharges are believed to be the leading source of invasive species in U.S. marine waters, thus posing public...

Ballast Island, also known as Barasu Island (Japanese: バラス島, romanized: Barasu-shima), is a small uninhabited coral island or cay in the Yaeyama chain...

"The ballasting effect of Saharan dust deposition on aggregate dynamics and carbon export: Aggregation, settling, and scavenging potential of marine snow"...

carbonate or chitin. Most shells that are found on beaches are the shells of marine mollusks, partly because these shells are usually made of calcium carbonate...

also cannot travel through the Suez Canal unless on a ballast voyage. The coatings in the ballast tanks are protected by two features, a full-time double-scrubbing...

Marine insurance covers the physical loss or damage of ships, cargo, terminals, and any transport by which the property is transferred, acquired, or held...

include hull biofouling, the dumping of ballast water and dumping of water from marine aquaria. A tank of ballast water is estimated to contain around 3...