LOSANGELES MARINE

Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology. In scientific contexts, the term almost always refers exclusively to saltwater environments, although in other contexts (e.g., engineering) it may refer to any (usually navigable) body of water... Merchant marine, or merchant navy, the fleet of merchant vessels registered in a country... Marine (book), a book about the United States Marine Corps written by Tom Clancy in 1996