Extended Operational and Trade Vocabulary
Marine Salvage and Wreck Removal glossary (page 2)
The practice and law of salvage and wreck removal: abandonment and constructive total loss as preconditions to a salvage tender, active versus standby salvage, admiralty jurisdiction in rem, accelerated awards under Lloyd’s procedures, and the Salvage Convention 1989. Grounds each term in the no-cure-no-pay framework and the wreck-removal regime.
264 defined terms.
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W
- Warranty Survey
- MWS attendance issuing certificates for tow, lift, or transport phases.
- Water Spray Curtain
- Protective screen used during hot work near hydrocarbons.
- Wave Hindcast
- Retrospective wave data used in salvage planning and award argument.
- Wellpoint
- Vacuum dewatering technique used for grounded ships on permeable seabeds.
- Wreck Marking Buoy
- Emergency buoy marking a new danger under IALA.
- Wreck Owner
- Registered owner liable under Nairobi Convention for wreck location and removal.
- Wreck Removal Plan
- Engineering and environmental document submitted to coastal state.
- WRECKFIXED 2010
- BIMCO lump-sum wreck removal contract.
- WRECKHIRE 2010
- BIMCO daily hire wreck removal contract.
- WRECKSTAGE 2010
- BIMCO milestone payment wreck removal contract.
X
- X-band radar
- 9.4 GHz band marine radar.
Y
- Y-Piece
- Manifold fitting used to combine or split dewatering lines on multiple pumps.
- Yokohama Fender
- Pneumatic ship-to-ship transfer fender developed by Yokohama Rubber.
Z
- Zone of Influence
- Area around a casualty affected by current, wind, and pollution drift.