Glossary Cruises
Transfer services or passenger transfers from the city of Santiago and the Metropolitan Region to tourist cruises that depart from the ports of Valparaiso, San Antonio and Coquimbo, in Chile.
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Shipwreck | to the process by which a boat sinks while sailing the sea. |
Navigation | It is the science and art of determining the position of the ship and to drive it from one place to another safely and accurately. |
Closed Circuit Navigation | an itinerary that begins and ends from the same port. a cruise back and forth. |
Line ship | |
Rib | Structural reinforcement that is made to a plate of material or fiberglass to increase its stiffness. |
Theme night | Nights in which the dinner and setting of certain common areas of the ship obey a certain theme (Halloween, Costumes, white night, pirate, tropical etc.).
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North of the compass | He is the one who points to the one who points magnetic compass. |
Geographic north | It is the true direction of the north pole. There is no instrument that indicates it without error. |
Magnetic north | It is the corresponding to the earth's magnetic field. To know its location, use the compass magnetic. |
Naked | Ship speed measurement that is equal to approximately 1.15 Millas Earth per hour. The nudo It is a unit of speed measurement, used for both navigation maritime as aerial, equivalent to one nautical mile per hour (1852 m / h). It is also used in meteorology to measure the speed of winds. |