Salvage

In the context of diving, salvage referred (PROSE: Daryl Christofi) to the cargo of sunken ships. (PROSE: Enthusiastic Amateur Diver Shares His Discoveries With You!) Salvage rights were also the rights given to individuals or groups to retrieve said salvage. (PROSE: Enthusiastic Amateur Diver Shares His Discoveries With You!, Pride of Mayfield Star Lines Beached in Devastating Storm)

History

The salvage obtainable from the sunken Elysium (PROSE: Daryl Christofi) included the valuable gold ingots and machine parts among the ship's cargo. The salvage rights to the Elysium were contested by the local authorities as soon as a day after her crash on 17 July 1888, (PROSE: Pride of Mayfield Star Lines Beached in Devastating Storm) and by the 2010s, some of the rights were obtained by Daryl Christofi. (PROSE: Enthusiastic Amateur Diver Shares His Discoveries With You!)