| Ship or science word |
What it means |
| 8 bells (you hear 8 bells) |
It is exactly noon |
| ADCP |
Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler, measures depths and current of water flowing by |
| Aft |
Moving in the direction of the stern |
| Berg |
Iceberg |
| Bergybit |
Small chunk of an iceberg |
| Bow |
The front of the ship |
| Bulkhead |
Any wall space |
| Bulwark |
The railing around the edge of a ship |
| Chow |
The food you eat on the messdeck |
| Cruise |
A mission of some kind on a ship |
| CTD |
Conductivity, temperature, depth; measures the salt, temperature and depth of a column of water |
| Deck |
Any floor space |
| Fore |
Moving in the direction of the bow |
| Galley |
Kitchen |
| Growler |
Smaller chunk of iceberg than a bergybit |
| Gumby |
Rubber, insulated survival suit, used to abandon ship |
| Gun bag |
Emergency medical kit |
| Head |
Bathroom |
| Helo (hee-lo) |
The helicopter (the Healy has 2) |
| Heve to |
Stop |
| Hove to |
Stopped |
| Hydrocast |
Getting water samples |
| Liberty |
Free time off the ship |
| Make fast |
Tie up to a dock |
| Messdeck |
The kitchen area including the eating space |
| Mooring |
An oceanographic measuring device attached to a heavy weight which is at the ocean floor |
| Muster |
Gather for a meeting |
| Ops |
Short for opertaion (something you do, like helo ops, small boat ops, or polar ops) |
| Overhead |
Ceiling |
| P.I. |
Principal investigator, the head scientist |
| Piped |
You've been called on the speaker |
| pipes |
The speaker system you hear on the ship |
| port |
Left side of the ship (looking at the bow) |
| Rack |
Your bed |
| Rosette |
The metal cages that holds the water sample bottles |
| Scuttlebutt |
The drinking fountain |
| Secure |
Close down |
| Stanchion |
A post inside a room |
| Starboard |
Right side of the ship (looking at the bow) |
| Stateroom |
Where you sleep |
| Station |
The place in the ocean where ones does science work |
| Stern |
The back of the ship |
| Thermohaline |
Describing ocean water in terms of tempertaure and salt level |
| Transom |
The very back edge of the stern |
| Watch |
Your time for work, as in, "My watch is from 4 to 8" |
| X.O. |
The executive officer, second to the captain |
