All at sea

Shipping terms can be opaque and confusing to the layman but officials in the shipping ministry will no longer be able to claim a lack of understanding. That's because the ministry has thoughtfully added a new feature, "Dictionary", on the website providing Hindi translations of common terms used in the maritime trade. While several of these are technical terms such as cran tress, dew point, truing, mast, quay, cat's paw, there is a touch of Pirates of the Caribbean to the choice of terms as well. They include Davy Jones' Locker, a euphemism for the bottom of the ocean, Ahoy (which has been translated in Hindi to suggest it is the way seafarers greet each other), Blue Peter, which means signal for the ship to sail, and Caboose, which refers to a ship's kitchen.