wreck grab
English
Noun
wreck grab (plural wreck grabs)
- A device designed to lift salvage from a shipwreck.
- 1969, The Dock and Harbour Authority - Volume 50, page 169:
- A feature of the vessel is the 100-ton wreck grab which has a capacity of 98 cu. yds.
- 1985, International Yearbook of Bulk Materials Handling Technology:
- 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.
- 2016, Manhar R. Dhanak & Nikolas I. Xiros, Springer Handbook of Ocean Engineering, →ISBN, page 1062:
- The wreck grab is brought to surface where recovered wreckage is lowered onto a barge.
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