🔍 Key Concepts

• Freeboard vs. draft – which one is measured above the waterline and which one below? • The meaning of camber in ship construction (what part of the deck it describes). • What buoyancy refers to in basic ship stability – is it a distance, a force, or something else?

💭 Think About

• Ask yourself: this question is asking for a vertical distance between the waterline and the main continuous deck. Which term is defined that way in ship construction? • Consider each choice: which one clearly describes a measurement in feet or meters, and which ones are shapes or physical principles? • Think about where surveyors or load line inspectors look when they mark a ship’s safety limits. What do they need to know about how high the deck is above the water?

✅ Before You Answer

• Identify which option is specifically a vertical distance from the waterline to a deck edge. • Eliminate any option that describes a shape of the deck rather than a distance. • Eliminate any option that is a physical principle (like an upward force) instead of a geometric measurement.