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MS Norman Atlantic, the Glossary

MS Norman Atlantic was a roll-on/roll-off passenger (ROPAX) ferry owned by the Italian ferry company Visemar di Navigazione.^[1]

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Adriatic Sea

The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan Peninsula.

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Afghans

Afghans (افغان‌ها) also Afghanistanis (افغانستانی‌ها), (افغانان) or Afghan people are nationals or citizens of Afghanistan, or people with ancestry from there.

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Albania

Albania (Shqipëri or Shqipëria), officially the Republic of Albania (Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeast Europe.

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Albanians

The Albanians (Shqiptarët) are an ethnic group native to the Balkan Peninsula who share a common Albanian ancestry, culture, history and language.

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Aliağa

Aliağa is a municipality and district of İzmir Province, Turkey.

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Ancona

Ancona (also) is a city and a seaport in the Marche region of Central Italy, with a population of around 101,997.

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ANEK Lines

ANEK Lines (Ανώνυμη Ναυτιλιακή Εταιρεία Κρήτης, Anonymi Naftiliaki Eteria Kritis, Anonymous Shipping Company of Crete) is one of the largest passenger shipping companies in Greece.

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Asturias

Asturias (Asturies) officially the Principality of Asturias, (Principado de Asturias; Principáu d'Asturies; Galician–Asturian: Principao d'Asturias) is an autonomous community in northwest Spain.

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Bareboat charter

A bareboat charter, or demise charter, is an arrangement for the chartering or hiring of a ship or boat for which no crew or provisions are included as part of the agreement.

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Bari

Bari (Bare; Barium) is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, southern Italy.

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Beam (nautical)

The beam of a ship is its width at its widest point.

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Brindisi

Brindisi is a city in the region of Apulia in southern Italy, the former capital of the province of Brindisi, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea.

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Cantiere Navale Visentini

Cantiere Navale di Visentini is a family owned Italian shipbuilder, based in Donada near Venice.

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Container ship

A container ship (also called boxship or spelled containership) is a cargo ship that carries all of its load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization.

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Corfu

Corfu or Kerkyra (Kérkyra) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea, of the Ionian Islands, and, including its small satellite islands, forms the margin of the nation's northwestern frontier with Albania.

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Corps of the Port Captaincies – Coast Guard

The Corps of the Port Captaincies – Coast Guard (Corpo delle Capitanerie di porto – Guardia costiera) is the coast guard of Italy and is part of the Italian Navy under the control of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport.

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County Wexford

County Wexford (Contae Loch Garman) is a county in Ireland.

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Diesel engine

The diesel engine, named after Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression; thus, the diesel engine is called a compression-ignition engine (CI engine).

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Draft (hull)

The draft or draught of a ship is a determined depth of the vessel below the waterline, measured vertically to its hull's lowest—its propellers, or keel, or other reference point.

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Drowning

Drowning is a type of suffocation induced by the submersion of the mouth and nose in a liquid.

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Fire sprinkler system

A fire sprinkler system is an active fire protection method, consisting of a water supply system providing adequate pressure and flowrate to a water distribution piping system, to which fire sprinklers are connected.

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Georgian Orthodox Church

The Apostolic Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Georgia (tr), commonly known as the Georgian Orthodox Church or the Orthodox Church of Georgia, is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church in full communion with the other churches of Eastern Orthodoxy.

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Gijón

Gijón or italics is a city and municipality in north-western Spain.

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Grandi Navi Veloci

Grandi Navi Veloci (GNV) is an Italian shipping company, based in Genoa, that operates ferries between mainland Italy, Sicily, Sardinia, France, Spain, Albania, Morocco and Tunisia.

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Hellenic Bureau for Marine Casualties Investigation

Hellenic Bureau for Marine Casualties Investigation (HBMCI, Ελληνική Υπηρεσία Διερεύνησης Ναυτικών Ατυχημάτων και Συμβάντων, ΕΛΥΔΝΑ) is a Greek government agency that investigates accidents and incidents to ships at sea. MS Norman Atlantic and Hellenic Bureau for Marine Casualties Investigation are maritime incidents in Greece.

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Hypothermia

Hypothermia is defined as a body core temperature below in humans.

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Igoumenitsa

Igoumenitsa (Igoumenítsa) is a coastal city in northwestern Greece.

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Illegal immigration

Illegal immigration is the migration of people into a country in violation of that country's immigration laws, or the continuous residence in a country without the legal right to.

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Law of the jungle

"The law of the jungle" (also called jungle law) is an expression that has come to describe a scenario where "anything goes".

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LD Lines

LD Lines was a French shipping company, with both roro freight and passenger ferry operations.

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Lecce

Lecce is a city in southern Italy and former capital of the province of Lecce, with the second-highest population in the Apulia region.

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Lifeboat (shipboard)

A lifeboat or liferaft is a small, rigid or inflatable boat carried for emergency evacuation in the event of a disaster aboard a ship.

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Loire-Atlantique

Loire-Atlantique (Gallo: Louére-Atantique; Liger-Atlantel; before 1957: Loire-Inférieure, Liger-Izelañ) is a department in Pays de la Loire on the west coast of France, named after the river Loire and the Atlantic Ocean.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Malta

Malta, officially the Republic of Malta, is an island country in Southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea.

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MAN Diesel

MAN Diesel SE was a German manufacturer of large-bore diesel engines for marine propulsion systems and power plant applications.

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MAN SE

MAN SE (abbreviation of Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg) was a manufacturing and engineering company based in Munich, Germany.

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Marine Accident Investigation Branch

The Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) is a UK government organisation, authorised to investigate all maritime accidents in UK waters and accidents involving UK registered ships worldwide.

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Maritime call sign

Maritime call signs are call signs assigned as unique identifiers to ships and boats.

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Moby Lines

Moby Lines (Moby Lines S.p.A.) is an Italian shipping company that operates ferries and cruiseferries between the Italian or French mainland and the islands of Elba, Sardinia and Corsica.

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MS Cruise Europa

MS Cruise Europa is a cruiseferry owned by Grimaldi Group. MS Norman Atlantic and MS Cruise Europa are 2009 ships and ferries of Italy.

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Mussel

Mussel is the common name used for members of several families of bivalve molluscs, from saltwater and freshwater habitats.

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Othonoi

Othonoi (Οθωνοί, also rendered as Othoni, translit) is a small inhabited Greek island in the Ionian Sea, located northwest of Corfu, and is the westernmost point of Greece.

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Patras

Patras (Pátra; Katharevousa and Πάτραι; Patrae) is Greece's third-largest city and the regional capital and largest city of Western Greece, in the northern Peloponnese, west of Athens.

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Porto Viro

Porto Viro, or Taglio di Porto is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Rovigo in the Italian region Veneto, located about south of Venice and about east of Rovigo.

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Roll-on/roll-off

Roll-on/roll-off (RORO or ro-ro) ships are cargo ships designed to carry wheeled cargo, such as cars, motorcycles, trucks, semi-trailer trucks, buses, trailers, and railroad cars, that are driven on and off the ship on their own wheels or using a platform vehicle, such as a self-propelled modular transporter.

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Rosslare Europort

Rosslare Europort (Europort Ros Láir) is a modern seaport located at Rosslare Harbour in County Wexford, Ireland, near the southeasternmost point of the island of Ireland.

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Saint-Nazaire

Saint-Nazaire (Gallo: Saint-Nazère/Saint-Nazaer) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France, in traditional Brittany.

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Saremar

Saremar (Sardegna Regionale Marittima) was an Italian shipping company, a subdivision of state-owned Tirrenia di Navigazione until 2009, when it was transferred to the Sardinian regional government.

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Search and rescue

Search and rescue (SAR) is the search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger.

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Strait of Otranto

The Strait of Otranto (Ngushtica e Otrantos; Canale d'Otranto) connects the Adriatic Sea with the Ionian Sea and separates Italy from Albania.

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Tanker (ship)

A tanker (or tank ship or tankship) is a ship designed to transport or store liquids or gases in bulk.

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Taranto

Taranto (Tarde) is a coastal city in Apulia, Southern Italy.

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Territorial waters

Territorial waters are informally an area of water where a sovereign state has jurisdiction, including internal waters, the territorial sea, the contiguous zone, the exclusive economic zone, and potentially the extended continental shelf (these components are sometimes collectively called the maritime zones).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Norman_Atlantic

Also known as IMO 9435466, MS Akeman Street, MS Scintu, MV Norman Atlantic, Norman Atlantic, Norman Atlantic fire 2014, Scintu.

, Strait of Otranto, Tanker (ship), Taranto, Territorial waters, The captain goes down with the ship, Valletta, Vlorë, Voyage data recorder.

MS Norman Atlantic, the Glossary

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See also

2014 fires in Europe

2014 in Greece

2014 in Italy

Ferries of Italy

Fires in Greece

Maritime incidents in 2014

Maritime incidents in Greece

Ships built by Cantiere Navale Visentini

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