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Best Endeavors by
Tony Redding
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Marine salvage has a long
history. It extends back to the classical world, when the divers of
ancient Greece received a share of cargoes recovered from wrecks.
Today, the fundamentals are unchanged. The salvor is rewarded in
relation to the value of the property recovered. In the 21st century, however,
salvage has a new focus: pollution prevention. Best
Endeavors published in the 50th Anniversary year of the
International Salvage Union, offers a unique insight into the
challenging and often dangerous business of salvage.
The book has accounts of over 100 salvage operations. There are the
battles to perform salvage on ships hit by missiles during the 1980s
"Supertanker War: involving Iran and Iraq, desperate struggles
to save ships thought to be beyond saving and cases involving work
at remote locations and in extreme conditions.
Best Endeavors is not a salvage textbook. Instead, it explores the
human qualities which make salvage possible, even when the odds are
heavily stacked against success.
The book examines the influence of luck in salvage situations and
explains how ingenuity and lateral thinking have brought many
crippled ships and their cargoes to safety in hostile circumstances.
There are over 150 photographs conveying the drama and hazards of
working on the edge of the possible. Best Endeavors paints a picture
of the demanding nature of the task faced by those dealing with the
aftermath of marine collisions, groundings, fires, explosions and
spills.
Hard Cover. 9 1/2 X 12, 256 pages.
$84.00 T7984 |
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