The wonders of salvage

Chapter 21: Transcriber’s Notes

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About This Book

The text surveys maritime salvage practice, explaining how wrecks and cargo are located, examined, patched, and refloated using diving, cofferdams, pumps, wire frameworks, and controlled explosions. It pairs clear technical descriptions with illustrated case studies that show varied challenges such as groundings, capsizes, torpedo damage, and beachings. Chapters describe step-by-step engineering solutions for righting ships, constructing concrete and steel patches, and recovering valuables from the sea-bed. Throughout, attention is given to the practical organization, hazards, and inventive problem-solving that underpin successful salvage operations.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.

Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.

The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.