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By the start of the 20th century, the U.S. Navy had developed a fledgling salvage capability. Today, under the aegis of the Supervisor of Salvage, the Navy routinely handles assignments around the world, guarding U.S. naval and maritime interests and responding to requests for assistance from our allies. Mud, Muscle, and Miracles takes its reader on a journey through the evolution of salvageâ from the construction of a cofferdam to reveal battleship Maineat the bottom of Havana harbor in 1911 to the use of side-scan sonar and remotely operated vehicles to recover aircraft debris and complete vessels from the depths. The story is one of masterful seamanship, incomparable engineering, and absolute ingenuity and courage. It is also the history of one of our nation’s longest-lasting public-private partnershipsâ that of the commercial salvage industry and the U.S. Navy. The second edition updates U.S. Navy salvage history through the beginning of the 21st century and chronicles 18 additional, precedent-setting marine salvage and deep-ocean recovery operations.
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The late Capt. Charles A. (Black Bart) Barthomomew, USN, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and the Navy Deep Sea Diving School, was an engineer who made the Navy—and salvage—his career. He served on board the heavy repair ship USS Hector during combat support operations in Southeast Asia; as Commanding Officer of the Navy Experimental Diving Unit; and in staff positions with the Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet and Long Beach Naval Shipyard. In 1985 Captain Bartholomew became Director of Ocean Engineering and Supervisor of Salvage and Diving. During his 22 years as a Navy diver and salvor, he participated in the salvage of 16 ships, numerous aircraft, and the space shuttle Challenger. Cmdr. William I. Milwee, Jr., USN (Ret.), is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Webb Institute of Naval Architecture, and the Navy Deep Sea Diving School. He served in diving and salvage billets in Harbor Clearance Unit One, in the Navy Experimental Diving Unit, and in the offices of the Supervisor of Diving and the Supervisor of Salvage, and as Fleet Salvage Officer for Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet. After retirement from the Navy in 1979, he worked in the offshore oil industry and founded a firm that provides marine salvage consulting services. He is the author of Modern Marine Salvage, a comprehensive text on salvage operations, and has written more than 30 articles.
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Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 505 Pages Indexed. Blue Boards with gold lettering and gold decoration on front. Jacket has some chipping to edges. This is a joint publication of the Naval Historical Center and Naval Sea Systems Command. Illustrated with Tables, Illustrations, Photographs, Diagrams, and Maps. This chronicle traces the evolution of U.S. Navy salvage forces and of salvage operations within the Navy. Salvage operations, and indeed Navy salvage as a whole, cannot be looked at as a series of independent, random incidents. Like the Navy itself, salvage operations are part of a constantly changing continuum affected by changes in technology, national policy, budgets, and other influences inside and outside the Navy. Only by viewing salvage operations in this way can we understand the evolution of salvage within the Navy, the value of Navy salvage to the nation, and the place of salvage operations in the maritime activity of the world. Salvage is not for everyone. It is hard work-dirty, dangerous, and demanding. The jobs look easier than they are. The risks are high, the problems severe and unique, and the line between success and failure thin. Salvage is also tremendously exciting and satisfying. The thrill of a salvor when a stranded ship refloats or a sunken wreck rises has few parallels. On the other hand, the defeats are devastating. Because salvage is the kind of work it is, it attracts people who invariably have tremendous abilities and confidence, with egos to match. It also requires mature individuals willing to take extraordinary risks but with the judgment not to take unnecessary ones, and who are able to submerge their egos so they can function as members of a team. Contents in Ten chapters: The Early Days, Between Wars, World War II Begins, Fleet Operations in World War II The European Theater, Fleet Operations in World War II The Pacific Theater, Navy Salvage After World War II, The Vietnam Era, Moving Toward The Nineties, Navy Salvage in The Deep Ocean, and In Retrospect. Seller Inventory # 20363
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