wreck grab

noun

A device designed to lift salvage from a shipwreck.

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Meanings

nounwreck grab (plural wreck grabs)

plural wreck grabs

  1. A device designed to lift salvage from a shipwreck.

    A feature of the vessel is the 100-ton wreck grab which has a capacity of 98 cu. yds.

    1969, The Dock and Harbour Authority - Volume 50, page 169
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    The company also makes a rail-mounted portal double link level luffing crane, capable of handling 32t at 34m; also a pontoon-mounted luffing crane, self-propelled, equipped with wreck grab: maximum capacity 350t at 23m.

    1985, International Yearbook of Bulk Materials Handling Technology

    The wreck grab is brought to surface where recovered wreckage is lowered onto a barge.

    2016, Manhar R. Dhanak, Nikolas I. Xiros, Springer Handbook of Ocean Engineering, →ISBN, page 1062
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