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- noun Plural form of
salvor .
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Examples
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The operation draws protests; Titanic survivor Eva Hart decries the "insensitivity and greed" and labels the salvors "fortune hunters, vultures, pirates."
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The private salvors who discovered the planes thought they had the scoop of the century.
A New Book 2010
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Divers from Smit Pentow Subsea the diving division of the local salvors, Smit Pentow Marine, were dispatched to get a closer look at the ship.
The Great Penguin Rescue Dyan DeNapoli 2010
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Sure some areas would be burnt out & pollution scarred, but many many miles of suburbia would host the immediate requirements for several thousand salvors for several months.
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Are you the lawyer Peter Hess who specializes in representing “salvors” in admiralty court, and taking a cut in the process?
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They may be protected from salvors less scrupulous than Odyssey, but they are by no means protected from the elements such as hurricaines, earthquakes, tsunamis, marine life intrusion, the chemical ravages of time or indeed the co-incidental human damage of trawling, fishing, pipe-laying, damage caused by other newer wrecks, oil exploration and modern warfare to name but a few.
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The main problem as I see it is that the log salvors are charged an exorbitant “handling fee” to Gulf Log for delivering their salvaged wood, often more than they get paid for each log.
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The Globe story concentrates on the log salvors – as it should.
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The Globe story concentrates on the log salvors – as it should.
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Why should the salvors be charged a handling fee when they are not responsible for losing them in the first place?
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