bell buoy
Ringing navigation marker
A bell buoy is a floating navigational marker equipped with a bell that rings as waves rock it, warning ships of hazards like shallow water or reefs.
The sound carries through fog when visual markers fail: We heard the bell buoy before we could see the harbor entrance.
Passage for transmission
- markerSomething that signals location
- seamarkCoastal navigation landmark
- harborSafe anchorage for ships
- waterwayNavigable route for vessels
fairway · anchorage · mooring · pilotage · lateral · starboard · portside · shoal
clang
Loud metallic sound
peal · knell · resonance · echo · clapper · gong · tonality · pitch · cadence · intermittent
channel
Passage for transmission
- markerSomething that signals location
- seamarkCoastal navigation landmark
- harborSafe anchorage for ships
waterway · fairway · anchorage · mooring · pilotage · lateral · starboard · portside · shoal · reef
caution
Careful attention to risk
signal · beacon · rocks · shallows · collision · grounding · fog · visibility · nighttime · storm
flotation
Ability to stay afloat
- anchor chainVessel's ground tackle linkage
- mooringVessel's secured resting place
- steelCarbon-hardened iron alloy
hull · dome · framework · tethered · swaying · bobbing · rocking · motion · counterweight · ballast
- bellscowbell, cowbells, toll, handbells, tongue
- harbordock, docks, pier, piers, wharf
- coastal navigationbeacon, channel marker, heading, nautical mile, piloting
- navigation aidscompass, maps, road signs, signs, GPS
- port navigationharbor pilot, pilot boat, channel marker, buoys, navigation light
- fog signalsfoghorn, diaphone, steam whistle, air horn, horn blast
bell buoylighthouse
Coastal beacon tower
light tower · beacon · radio beacon · daymark · radar reflector
bell, bells, buoyant, buoy, doorbell, dumbbell, buoyancy, belfry, handbell