[opium_tea]

It's amazing what different people take from articles. That someone would read through this page and instead of appreciating the effort and craft their response would be an absolute textbook example of tedious internet pedantry.

[sandworm101]

Or someone who has to spend too much time around navy people who obsess about these definitions, people for whom small errors can lead to poorly loaded holds or vessels hitting rocks because they didn't know their draft from their hull depth.

[NotEvil]

But thise people won't come here to find answers to there questions. Whould they? They will learn it in there professional or academic life.