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100 Words Every Coast Guard Should Know

July 25, 2026

100 Words Every Coast Guard Should Know

No. Item Definition
1. anchor device securing vessel in place
2. bearing direction to an object
3. berth assigned sleeping space or mooring
4. bilge lowest interior part of hull
5. boarding going onto another vessel
6. bow front of a vessel
7. bridge command area of a vessel
8. bulkhead interior structural wall
9. buoy floating navigation marker
10. capsize turn over in water
11. casualty person injured or killed
12. chart map for marine navigation
13. cleat fitting for securing line
14. collision crash between vessels or objects
15. compass instrument showing direction
16. course intended direction of travel
17. current continuous water movement
18. daymark unlighted navigation marker
19. deck floor surface of a vessel
20. dehydration harmful lack of body water
21. dewatering removing water from vessel
22. dinghy small open boat
23. distress grave danger requiring help
24. dock place for mooring vessels
25. draft depth below waterline
26. ebb outgoing tidal flow
27. escort accompany for protection or control
28. estuary tidal river mouth
29. evacuation organized removal from danger
30. fairway main navigable route
31. fender bumper protecting vessel sides
32. fire combustion emergency aboard
33. fix determined vessel position
34. flare distress signaling pyrotechnic
35. flood incoming tidal flow
36. flooding unwanted water entering vessel
37. freeboard height above waterline
38. gale very strong wind
39. gangway passage between ship and shore
40. GPS satellite navigation system
41. grounding running aground on bottom
42. harbor sheltered water for vessels
43. hatch opening with a cover
44. heading direction vessel points
45. helicopter rotary aircraft used in rescue
46. helm steering position or wheel
47. hull main body of a vessel
48. hurricane powerful tropical cyclone
49. hypothermia dangerously low body temperature
50. icebreaker vessel built to break ice
51. inlet narrow water entrance
52. intercept stop and approach a vessel
53. jet ski small personal watercraft
54. keel central bottom structural member
55. knot nautical mile per hour
56. latitude north-south position measure
57. life jacket wearable flotation device
58. life raft inflatable emergency survival craft
59. lifeboat boat for emergency evacuation
60. lighthouse tower guiding vessels
61. line rope used aboard vessels
62. logbook official record of events
63. longitude east-west position measure
64. lookout person watching for hazards
65. man overboard person fallen into water
66. mayday urgent distress call
67. mooring secured anchoring arrangement
68. nautical mile marine unit of distance
69. nearshore close to the shore
70. offshore away from the shore
71. pan-pan urgent non-distress call
72. patrol regular surveillance mission
73. PFD personal flotation device
74. pier structure extending over water
75. port left side of a vessel
76. propeller rotating blades that drive vessel
77. radar system detecting objects by radio
78. radio wireless communication equipment
79. range aligned navigation markers
80. reef ridge near water surface
81. rescue saving from danger
82. rudder steering blade at stern
83. salvage recovery of vessel or cargo
84. search looking for missing persons
85. sécurité safety broadcast warning
86. shoal shallow water area
87. starboard right side of a vessel
88. stern rear of a vessel
89. surf breaking waves near shore
90. survivor person remaining alive
91. swell long rolling waves
92. tide regular sea level change
93. tow pull a vessel behind
94. uniform standard service clothing
95. visibility distance one can see
96. wake waves left by vessel
97. watch assigned duty period
98. waterline line where hull meets water
99. weather atmospheric conditions at sea
100. winch machine for pulling line
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