Sagging - Straining of the ship which tends to make the middle portion lower than the bow and stern.
Category: - Maritime

Salvage - The property which has been recovered from a wrecked vessel, or the recovery of the vessel herself.
Category: - Maritime - Risk

Samson Post - A heavy vertical post which supports cargo booms; kingpost.
Category: - Maritime

SAR - The Canadian Coast Guard (http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/sar/program/index_e.htm) and the Department of National Defense jointly provide effective maritime Search & Rescue services across Canada. Search and Rescue or SAR comprises the search for and provision of aid to persons, ships or other craft which are, or are percieved to be, in distress or imminent danger.
Category: - General

SAR Boundaries - Administrative geographic boundaries for Search & Rescue Planning and operations
Category: - SAR

SARSAT - SARSAT stands for Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking. It is a system of satellites operated by the governments of Canada, Russia, France and the United States. The satellites pick up distress signals from emergency radio transmitters (SEE ELT) and relay them to ground based Mission Control Centres (MCCs). The ground stations pass the information on to the nearest Rescue Coordination Centre (SEE RCC), which dispatches a rescue unit. The SARSAT system can localize a distress signal to within 30 kilometers of its source.
Category: - Acronym - SAR

SAR Tech - The Search and Rescue Technicians (SAR Techs) are Non-Commissioned Officers trained in land and sea survival, parachuting, SCUBA diving, mountain climbing, helicopter rescue techniques and most importantly advanced trauma life support. Their medical training is extensive and ranks close to the level of the Advanced Life Support (ALS) paramedics of the BC Ambulance Service, although the SAR Techs tend to specialize more on trauma and less on cardiac and other injuries encountered by the ALS paramedics. The SAR Techs work in two person teams consisting of a Team Leader and a Team Member.
Category: - General

SC - Sea Current
Category: - Maritime - Acronym

Scantlings - The dimensions of various shapes.
Category: - Maritime

Schooner - Originally, a small, sharp-built vessel, with two masts and fore-and-aft rig. Sometimes it carried square topsails on one or both masts and was called a topsail schooner. About 1840, longer vessels with three masts, fore-and-aft rigged, came into use, and since that time vessels with four masts and even with six masts, so rigged, are built. Schooners with more than two masts are designated three-masted schooners, four-masted schooners, etc.
Category: - General