Ship salvage work has long been viewed as a form of legal piracy. It’s a risky business with high stakes, as insurers will offer up to 70 percent of the value of the ship and its cargo to anyone who can save it. If the salvage effort fails, they don’t pay a dime.

As ships have gotten bigger and cargo more valuable, the expertise and resources required to mount a salvage effort have steadily increased. That’s where Titan Salvage comes in, with its motley crew of specialists in deep-sea diving, computer modeling, underwater welding, and big-engine repair who race around the world saving ships.

Titan’s business plan hinges on the idea that ships can be saved by human ingenuity, not horsepower, and the company’s unconventional approach works … most of the time. The team has pulled a stranded oil derrick off the world’s most remote island, 1,700 miles west of South Africa. They’ve wrangled a 1,000-foot container ship off a sandbar in Mexico and rescued a loaded propane tanker in the middle of a Caribbean storm. But none of them will forget the ‘Cougar Ace.’

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