navigational buoy

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• Buoy — A buoy is a floating device that can have many different purposes, which determine whether the buoy is anchored (stationary) or allowed to drift. The word, of Old French or Middle Dutch origin, is nowadays most commonly pronEng|ˈbɔɪ (identical… …   Wikipedia

• Buoy tender — A buoy tender is a type of vessel used to maintain and replace navigational buoys. The United States Coast Guard uses buoy tenders to accomplish one of its primary missons of maintaining all U. S. Aids to Navigation (ATON).Types of CG buoy… …   Wikipedia

• Navigational aid — A lighthouse is an easily recognized aid to navigation. A navigational aid (also known as aid to navigation, ATON, or navaid) is any sort of marker which aids the traveler in navigation; the term is most commonly used to refer to nautical or… …   Wikipedia

• buoy — /booh ee, boy/, n. 1. Naut. a distinctively shaped and marked float, sometimes carrying a signal or signals, anchored to mark a channel, anchorage, navigational hazard, etc., or to provide a mooring place away from the shore. 2. a life buoy. v.t …   Universalium

• buoy — a float moored to the bottom that marks a navigational channel, a position such as a shoal, a wreck or a net or trap. Also used to show the position of an anchor for attaching a boat and then called a mooring buoy. Pronounced boy in English and… …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• buoy — 1. noun /bɔi,ˈbuː.i/ a) A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, or indicate a navigational channel …   Wiktionary

• buoy tender — noun a) Someone charged in looking after buoys. b) A ship used to maintain navigational buoys …   Wiktionary

• can buoy — noun a buoy with a round bottom and conical top • Syn: ↑can • Hypernyms: ↑buoy * * * noun : a truncated buoy having a flat top see buoy illustration * * * a cylindrical, unlighted buoy used as a channel marker. See illus. under buoy. Cf …   Useful english dictionary

• Weather buoy — operated by the NOAA National Data Buoy Center Weather buoys are instruments which collect …   Wikipedia

• Single buoy mooring — (SBM) or Single point mooring (SPM) are loading buoys anchored offshore and serve as a mooring point for tankers to (off)load gas or fluid products. They are the link between the geostatic subsea manifold connections and the weathervaning tanker …   Wikipedia

• Radio Navigational Aids — The Radio Navigational Aids (Publication 117) publication contains a detailed list of selected worldwide radio stations that provide services to the mariner.National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, 2008.] The publication is divided into chapters… …   Wikipedia