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American marine salvage: from The Merritt-Chapman and Scott Corp. to TITAN Salvage

A few weeks ago the US Navy awarded TITAN Salvage the contract to serve as the commercial marine salvage and engineering support contractor for the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), the division of the US Navy responsible for engineering, building, … Continue reading

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So what’s that banner pic about?

You can imagine my surprise yesterday morning when, mired in 1830′s marine salvage research, I found out the day’s post had been Freshly Pressed. Sweet — over the next hour this blog had more hits than it has in an … Continue reading

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Ireland’s shipwreck landscape

Some places just ooze shipwrecks. Take the west coast of Ireland, a wreck trap for centuries. Blogger Mary Bermingham’s lyric description (recently posted here) wonderfully captures its shipwreck landscape: There are high winds and a strange, warm, misty rain like … Continue reading

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Shipwreck symbols – where’d they come from?

Whoever designed this symbol for “wreck showing any portion of hull or superstructure at level of chart datum” was a genius. It’s not the only symbol for a shipwreck used on American nautical charts, but it’s my favorite (NOAA lists … Continue reading

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