Best Endeavours: Inside the world of marine salvage

This book provides a unique insight into the challenging and often dangerous business of marine salvage. It covers over 100 salvage operations and includes vivid narrative from the Salvage Masters on the frontline. 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 Endeavours is not a salvage textbook but, rather, an exploration of the human qualities required to 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. The text is supported by over 150 stunning photographs conveying the drama and hazards of working at the edge of the possible when dealing with the aftermath of marine collisions, groundings, fires, explosions and spills.

Published by the ABR Company Limited, 2004. ISBN 1-904050-09-3