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Boatmen's guide to light salvage /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reid, George H., 1924- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Centreville, Md. : Cornell Maritime Press, 1979.
Subjects:
Salvage.
Boats and boating.
Sauvetage en mer.
Table of Contents:
  • An introduction to light salvage
  • Basic skills required
  • The gear
  • Common salvage situations
  • Refloating grounded vessels
  • Dewatering the sunken or sinking vessel
  • Raising submerged vessels
  • Vessel adrift - rescue towing
  • Submerged and lost
  • Seamanship, rigging and beach gear
  • Ridding for a tow
  • Moving material under water
  • Miscellaneous and extraneous
  • Some legal aspects of salvage
  • Getting started in light salvage.