On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 10:02:26 -0800, "Steve" wrote:

The US Navy played with this back in the early '60s for ship salvage but
soon switched to pour-in-place foam.

The idea is older than that. Ca. 1950, a Tugboat Annie story in the
fiction supplement of the Boston Globe concerned a salvage job where a
sunken vessel was raised by filling it with pingpong balls. :-)



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