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2. Marine salvage - Wikipedia

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   USS Regulus hard aground in 1971 due to a typhoon: after three weeks of effort, Naval salvors deemed it unsalvageable.. Marine salvage takes many forms, and may involve anything from refloating a ship that has gone aground or sunk as well as necessary work to prevent loss of the vessel, such as pumping water out of a ship—thereby keeping the ship afloat—extinguishing fires on board, to ...

3. Law of salvage - Wikipedia

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   Law of salvage. The law of salvage is a principle of maritime law whereby any person who helps recover another person's ship or cargo in peril at sea is entitled to a reward commensurate with the value of the property saved. Maritime law is inherently international, and although salvage laws vary from one country to another, generally there are ...

4. Glossary of early twentieth century slang in the United States

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   Taking shot of booze to help recover from a hangover especially the day after going on a Toot; also The hair of the dog that bit you [210] half Fifty-cents; 50 cents i.e. $.50 [211] half cut Happily intoxicated [21] half seas over Alternate names for intoxicated; see § drunk [212] [b] half under Alternate names for intoxicated; see § drunk ...

5. A's owner John Fisher claims 'we did our very best' to keep ...

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   Fisher did not sell the team. He maintained his ownership stake and finalized a deal to move the franchise to Las Vegas. The A's will play their final homestand this week, with three games against ...

6. Man overboard rescue turn - Wikipedia

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   A man overboard rescue turn (or person overboard) [1] is a shiphandling manoeuvre usually implemented immediately upon learning of a person having gone overboard into the sea. To bring a vessel closer to the person's location, implementations of the principles described are: the Anderson turn (or single turn), the quick turn (also known as the ...

7. Schoharie limousine crash - Wikipedia

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   Another issue relevant to the crash was seat belt requirements, or the lack thereof, for passengers in limousines. New York, like many states, only requires passengers in the front seat to use them. Expanders are not even required to add them, nor any additional side airbags. [71] "[W]earing seat belts does save lives", Sumwalt told the media.