Patent ID: 8240265

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 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 trussed debris basket to the seabed using the lifting line, the basket having 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 c into the basket interior via the open top; e. attaching the lifting line to additional objects to be salvaged in sequence; f. in step e placing each additional object to be salvaged into the basket interior via the open top; and g. wherein in steps d through f multiple of the objects to be salvaged are not lifted from the seabed to the water surface; and h. wherein one of the objects is a damaged marine platform.