maritime salvage

Are there something like maritime salvage laws that determine this sort of thing?

Maritime salvage specialists already have staff at the scene assessing the options.

Maritime salvage in the case of the SS Central America is where the term gained importance.

He advised the United States Navy on submarine technology and maritime salvage during World War II.

Within hours, Iranian gunboats attacked the Swedish supertanker Stena Concordia with machine-gun fire in the southern Persian Gulf, maritime salvage executives said.

It was their conclusion that operations were not possible, and the New York papers all reported the view as definitive, demonstrating that MC&S already had considerable reputation for expertise in maritime salvage.

The Commonwealth Marine Salvage Board, also known as the Australian Salvage Board, was an Australian government authority over maritime salvage during the Second World War.

Many of the artifacts in the exhibition have already been seen by more than nine million people worldwide through RMS Titanic Inc., a not-for-profit maritime salvage company based in the United States.

Robin Middleton, the Secretary of State's Representative in Maritime Salvage and Intervention who was leading the MCA's salvage response team, decided to beach the ship in Lyme Bay.

Following company closure, Lake continued designing maritime salvage systems including a failed attempt to salvage gold from , a British frigate that sank in 1780 in New York's East River with his submarine, the 'Explorer'.

Maritime salvage agents reported the 85-foot Australian shrimp trawler Shenton Bluff, under contract to Iran, was damaged near Iran on Thursday by an Iraqi missile, which hit the wheelhouse and killed the Australian captain.

Deep Ocean Expeditions, an adventure tour company that wants to run tours of the wreckage, appealed the lower court decision, contending that a company's rights to wreckage under conventional maritime salvage law does not extend to the water surrounding it.

The contract went to a wealthy scrap metal merchant, Ernest Cox, who created a new company, Cox & Danks Ltd, for the venture, and so began what is often called the greatest maritime salvage operation of all time.

In its decision of 31 January 2006 the court recognised "explicitly the appropriateness of applying maritime salvage law to historic wrecks such as that of Titanic" and denied the application of the Maritime Law of Finds.

Meanwhile, maritime salvage executives here said a Maltese-flag freighter, the 22,260-ton Alga, was hit by a missile Friday night in the Persian Gulf, but it was not clear today whether it had been attacked by Iran or Iraq.

Peter Sachs, a maritime salvage specialist in East London, told the South African Press Association that the coastal area, including the Wild Coast, extending down to Cape Agulhas on the southernmost tip of Africa, had one of the world's densest concentration of shipwrecks, with 1,500 vessels having gone down.