salvage

Salvage means 'rescue' and as such may refer to:

• Marine salvage, the process of rescuing a ship, its cargo and sometimes the crew from peril
• Water salvage, rescuing people from floods.
• Salvage tug, a type of tugboat used to rescue or salvage ships which are in distress or in danger of sinking
• Salvage data, the process of extracting data from damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible primary storage media
• Salvage archaeology, an archaeological survey and excavation carried out in areas threatened by construction or development
• Salvage ethnography, the practice of salvaging a record of what was left of a culture before it disappeared
• Salvage therapy, medical treatment for those patients not responding adequately to First line treatment

Salvage is een term die gebruikt wordt bij de berging van gezonken of in moeilijkheden geraakte schepen, maar ook voor het (be)redden van goederen na een calamiteit zoals bij brand of waterschade.