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...