So quite often you load water for ballast.

Ballast water exchange is currently the only method used to minimize the transfer of harmful aquatic organisms and pathogens through ships' ballast water.

Control of harmful organisms and pathogens in ballast water

It also established a ballast water review group to determine whether appropriate technologies are available to achieve the ballast water performance standard required under regulation D 2.

They ended up swimming through ballast water that had oil in it.

Because when tankers carry oil they have to have ballast at some point, so when they're empty, they have the ballast water in there.

When they come back, they actually dump this oily ballast water into the ocean.

Ballast?

We tried in the water without any skin or ballast just to see how it works.

Trim your forward ballast.

Trim your forward ballast.

The introduction of non native species or diseases, including from ballast water and hull fouling, is a global concern.

52. Further calls upon States to accelerate the development of measures to address the problem of invasive alien species in ballast water, and urges the International Maritime Organization to finalize the International Convention on the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments

91. In the marine sector, the problem was first recognized as having global significance with the issue of ships apos ballast water.

Throwing overboard, as ballast, to change our direction.

Alright. Soon as I take on some ballast.

We've got to gain altitude. Unload the ballast.

Well, in a balloon it's easy, we have ballast.

And when we drop the ballast overboard we climb.

Aboard The Nautilus, we use such baubles for ballast.

You've been pickin' 'em up, and picking 'em up good ballast.

Throwin' away a chance like that the professor's losin' his ballast.

The new IMO Guidelines for Preventing the Introduction of Unwanted Aquatic Organisms and Pathogens from Ships apos Ballast Water and Sediment Discharges 51 are understood to provide only a partial solution to the problem.

They recommend ballast water exchange in the open ocean, but since this may create problems for vessel stability and structural integrity, the Maritime Safety Committee is considering whether to include technical advice on safety aspects.

92. The IMO Working Group responsible for pursuing work in this area has emphasized that the problems related to the accidental transfer of marine organisms by ships apos ballast water was part of a larger question.

No, the pioneer is the one who allows himself to throw overboard a lot of ballast.

It's clear that it's not easy to know which ballast to drop and which altitude to take.

It's really a question of the system, how the ship was loaded, the ballast and many other things.

The question I leave you with now is which is the ballast you would like to throw overboard?

In order to prevent, minimize and ultimately eliminate the risks arising from the transfer of harmful aquatic organisms and pathogens by ships, IMO adopted the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments in 2004.

That's when you throw out all the ballast, all the certainties, in order to adapt to the new situation.

57. Also welcomes the adoption by the International Maritime Organization of the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments,International Maritime Organization, document BWM CONF 36, annex. and calls upon States to become parties to that Convention

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90. The issue of the introduction of alien or new species has many aspects, and increasingly involves more and more institutions with diverse interests, ranging from protection of biodiversity and habitat, conservation of fisheries, to the control of wastes in the form of ballast water discharge.

Water, water, please.

The Committee approved a programme for the development of guidelines for uniform implementation of the Convention and established a technical group within the Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection to review proposals for approval of ballast water management systems that use active substances.

Give me water, water...

Nancy! Uh, water. Water.

Water, bring me water.

Water. Water. Soldiers first!

Soda or water? Water. I find always that with water....

Water gun and water fountain

Water, ather, give me water.

It's clear that it's not easy to know which ballast to drop and which altitude to take. Sometime we need friends, family members or a psychiatrist.