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    Parbuckle salvage, or parbuckling, is the righting of a sunken vessel using rotational leverage. A common operation with smaller watercraft, parbuckling...
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    Costa Concordia disaster (category Marine salvage operations)
    line's insurer, and her salvage was "one of the biggest maritime salvage operations". On 16 September 2013, the parbuckle salvage of the ship began, and...
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    Dutch salvaging company Smit International was hired to salvage the ship. As she had remained afloat upside down, a plan was designed to parbuckle the vessel...
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    two U.S. Navy salvage ships, USS Grasp and USS Bolster, used the parbuckle salvage technique to raise Rajah Soliman's wreck from the harbor floor. After...
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  • exerting a sideward holding force on a vessel. Also called a water kite. parbuckle A method of lifting a roughly cylindrical object such as a spar. One end...
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  • January 2012). "Anna Akhmatova". Shipwrecklog. Retrieved 17 May 2014. "No salvage for stricken trawler". The Northern Star. 31 January 2012. Retrieved 1...
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