Its open-air machinery grinds rusted debris into powder right next to buildings full of thriftily salvaged, less rusty antiques.
A few days later they shamefacedly brought him a few plastic bags full of documents they had salvaged.
During the last year of the operation, the massive scope of full excavation and salvage was beginning to take its toll on those closely involved in the project.
CAR collectors, in their quests for the Find, would not let the pending liquidation of a salvage yard full of rusting vehicles go unnoticed.
Goldblatt had a keen eye for symbolic objects: a stacked arrangement of miners' shovels in a salvage yard, shelves full of canned goods in a shop in Soweto.
Atolls like Majuro in the Marshall Islands had little land to offer, but they enclosed capacious lagoons, which Calhoun could stuff full of tenders, cargo ships, ammunition carriers, salvage tugs, minesweepers, oil tankers, repair ships, floating dry-docks, hospital ships and assorted barges.
Marx said that if this is a boat full of treasure, the cost of the salvage effort would probably be about $200,000 per day and last a couple of years working everyday in all weathers.
With all those fittings, blingbling or otherwise, the ship is full of extra weight, making the task of salvaging trickier.
They salvaged a ship full of green bananas off Puerto Rico and towed blackstrap molasses to rum distilleries in Barbados, St. Thomas, St . Martin and Puerto Rico.
The calculus of salvage shifted.
Other sources of salvage include remodeling jobs.
