- AFM
- AIS
- Alan Kurdi
- Alarm Phone
- Alert phase
- Anchor
- Banana
- Baseline
- Beaufort
- Boat-landing
- Bouri oilfield
- Bow
- Bridge
- Bunkering
- cable
- Channel 16
- Charter
- Circomare Lampedusa
- Coastal State
- Colibri
- Communication Officer
- Contiguous zone
- Course
- CPR
- Critical rescue
- Deputy SAR Coordinator
- Distress
- Easy 1
- Easy 2
- Exclusive Economic Zone (EZZ)
- EGC
- Emergency phase
- ECDIS
- ETA
- ETD
- EUNAVFOR MED
- Evacuation
- Expanding square search
- Flag state
- FPSO
- Freeboard
- Frontex
- GACS
- GISIS
- Global SAR Plan
- GMDSS
- GPS
- Heading
- High seas
- IAMSAR
- IMO
- Inmarsat
- Innocent passage
- International waters
- IOM
- ITCG
- ITMRCC
- Jasmund Shipping
- Search and Rescue Region
- JRCC
- Knots
- Latitude
- Libyan Coast Guard
- Lifejacket
- Liferaft
- LNCG
- Longitude
- LYJRCC
- Main deck
- Main deck
- MCP
- medevac
- MMSI
- Moonbird
- MRCC
- MRO
- MTJRCC
- Nautical Miles
- NAVTEX
- Non-discrimination
- Offshore Supply Vessel
- on-scene
- Open Arms
- Operation Mare Sicuro
- Operation Themis
- OSC
- Paris Memorandum of Understanding
- Paris MoU
- Patrolling
- Pilot
- Place of refuge
- Place of safety
- PoB
- Port agency
- Port Authority
- Port State Control
- PoS
- Project Coordinator
- Provisions
- PSC
- Radar
- RCC
- Rescue Action Plan
- Rescue raft
- Research & Evidence Officer
- Resupply
- RHIB
- RIB
- Rotation
- SafetyNET
- SAR Case
- SAR Convention
- SAR Coordinator
- SAR
- SAR State
- SAR Team
- Sea state
- Sea-Watch 3
- Search Action Plan
- Shelter
- SITREP
- SMC
- SOLAS
- SOLAS Convention
- SPMRCC
- SRR
- SRU
- SSAS
- Survivors
- Target
- Territorial waters
- Time charter party
- TNMRCC
- Transfer / transhipment
- Transshipment
- Tug
- Uncertainty phase
- UNCLOS
- Underway
- VHF
- VTS