Salvage Rescued from the Deep Author:David L. Williams Ever since man first went down to the sea in boats there has been shipwrecks--and whenever a ship founders and sinks it takes with it something precious: lives, cargoes, money or perhaps just a picture of the past. — Where there are shipwrecks there is salvage--defined as being 'the saving of a ship or its cargo from loss by wreck or ca... more »pture; the rescue of property from fire, wreckage or flood'. Often romantically portrayed as diving operations on fabulous wrecks or reclaiming treasure from the clutches of the deep, salvage operations are dangerous, demanding, but ultimately rewarding.
The stories in this book range from the depths of the ocean to the depths of space:
The incredible story of the most valuable underwater salvage operation ever undertaken--the raising of 44 million British pounds worth of gold ingots from the HMS Edinburgh entombed on the icy floor of the Barents Sea.
The recovery from space of two communications satellites--each insured for $100 million at Lloyd's--by the space shuttle Challenger.
The CIA's attempts to lift a Russian 'Golf' class submarine and snatch its secrets by using recluse millionaire Howard Hughes's ocean recovery vessel Glomar Explorer.
Searching for the most dangerous of all salvage--a USAF nuclear bomb jettisoned from a B-52 Stratofortress off Spain in 1966.
These stories and many more tell tales of great tragedies and their aftermath as man reclaims his own from the sea.« less