{"id":3526,"date":"2018-04-13T23:13:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T06:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=3526"},"modified":"2018-04-13T23:13:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T06:13:14","slug":"what-all-the-markings-on-ocean-faring-ships-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=3526","title":{"rendered":"What all the markings on ocean-faring ships mean"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Tugboat crews easily read a vessel\u2019s size, shape, function, and features, while deciphering at a glance the mysterious numbers, letters, and symbols on a ship\u2019s hull. To non-mariners, the markings look like hieroglyphs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hakaimagazine.com\/videos-visuals\/the-secret-language-of-ships\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hakai magazine on coastal science published a really cool article<\/a> that helps you decode all the interesting markings, paint schemes, and functions of the interesting and strange things you see on big ocean-going vessles. I had no idea there was so much interesting information &#8211; and that paint schemes are far, FAR more complicated than marking water lines. Give it a read.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23265 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hakaimagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-plimsoll-reading-ships-1200x800.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hakaimagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-plimsoll-reading-ships-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.hakaimagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-plimsoll-reading-ships-520x347.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.hakaimagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-plimsoll-reading-ships-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hakaimagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/4-plimsoll-reading-ships-900x600.jpg 900w\" alt=\"plimsoll lines on the side of a ship\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tugboat crews easily read a vessel\u2019s size, shape, function, and features, while deciphering at a glance the mysterious numbers, letters, and symbols on a ship\u2019s hull. To non-mariners, the markings look like hieroglyphs. Hakai magazine on coastal science published a really cool article that helps you decode all the interesting markings, paint schemes, and functions of the interesting and strange things you see on big ocean-going vessles. I had no idea there was so much interesting information &#8211; and that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=3526\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-US","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3527,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions\/3527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}