Patent ID: 7908988

Claim:
A method of salvaging multiple objects from a seabed, comprising the steps of: a) providing a marine lifting apparatus that includes a floating hull adapted to be transported upon a water surface above the seabed and a lifting device supported upon the hull, the lifting device having a lifting line that is extendable from the water surface to the seabed; b) lowering a debris basket that includes multiple trusses, to the seabed using the lifting line, the basket having trusses forming a sidewall or sidewalls, an open top and an interior; c) attaching the lifting line to a first of the objects to be salvaged; d) placing the first object of step into the basket interior via the open top; e) attaching the lifting line to one or more additional objects to be salvaged in sequence; and f) in step placing each additional object to be salvaged into the basket interior via the open top, wherein each said object is not lifted from the seabed to the water surface before placement in said basket.