Captain Lee from 'Below Deck' explains how the deck team measures the anchor chain and what the terms 'shots' or 'shackles' comes from.

Starting with rope, it sometimes serves alone as an anchor line. More often, it is used as just one component—along with shackles, swivels and chain—to make up an anchor rode. So-called all-chain rode ...

The chain from an anchor formed a walking path through the items. Schiller was adding to the collection by bringing to the collector an oversized shackle used to fasten a heavy anchor chain to a ship.

THE clearest ever footage of the wreck of the Titanic shows the doomed ship’s massive 15 ton anchor sitting on ocean floor. The amazing images were taken 12,500 feet below the surface and also ...