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bilge water

NOUN
  1. water accumulated in the bilge of a ship

How To Use bilge water In A Sentence

  • To reduce the chances of corrosion, the tank should sit well above the bottom of the bilge and there must be air, not bilge water, beneath it.
  • Eurasian Zebra mussels, brought in by bilge water in ships, cause $5 billion damage annually to the Great Lakes.
  • The Holland, MI, builder says that aluminum ‘drop’ sump style fuel tanks installed at the centerlines of hulls of the targeted boats may be immersed in standing bilge water, causing corrosion.
  • Australia's BlueRay Marine Security System is one of the new breed that monitors your boat, reporting intruders, fire and gas detection, high bilge water and engine status.
  • Oily bilge water is also created by the project team to be fed into the system.
  • Every year, for example, oil tankers, freighters and cruise ships dump millions of litres of oil through routine exchanges of bilge water and other ship activities.
  • Unfortunately, the dialogue comes from a cast of stock horror characters who spit out clichés like bilge water.
  • Other discharges include 37,000 gallons of oily bilge water and 15 gallons of toxic waste from dry-cleaning, painting and photograph-processing.
  • He uses an elaborate mast step bridge which elevates the mast shoe so the mast base is never in the bilge water.
  • Often it arrived in the form of ballast in the bellies of ships, which ensured that everything apart from the bilge water could be traded to maximise the trip.
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