context: Courts generally look at a number of factors in making this determination. In Hener, the court considered the time when each group began their labors, the duration of each groups' tangible salvaging activity, the comparative skill and quality of the competing groups, the salvors' investments in capital and labor, and the likelihood of success of each of the parties.
citation_a.signal: see also
citation_a.identifier: 883 F.Supp. 1363, 1363
citation_a.parenthetical: requiring the salvor in possession to describe its archaeological preservation activities when applying for an extension of time of its exclusive salvage rights
citation_a.sentence: Id.; see also ANDREA DORIA, 836 F.Supp. at 1107 (relying extensively on the MDM Salvage factors, and considering plaintiffs “near-term ability to salvage the wreck,” his historical research, his capital investments into the salvage operation, and his still and video photography of the site); BROTHER JONATHAN, 883 F.Supp. at 1363 (requiring the salvor in possession to describe its archaeological preservation activities when applying for an extension of time of its exclusive salvage rights); 2 Thomas J. Schoenbaum, Admiralty and Maritime Law § 16-7, at 346 (2d ed. 1994) (submitting that the law of salvage, state and federal statutes, and international conventions “should be interpreted as requiring both a salvor and a finder of historic shipwreck to use proper archaeological techniques to preserve the scientific, historic, and archaeological integrity and provenance of the wreck”); cf. Columbus-America Discovery Group, 974 F.2d at 468 (emphasizing that “the degree to which salvors worked to proteet the historical and archaeological value of the wreck and items salved” is an important consideration in granting a salvage award).
citation_b.signal: cf.
citation_b.identifier: 974 F.2d 468, 468
citation_b.parenthetical: emphasizing that "the degree to which salvors worked to proteet the historical and archaeological value of the wreck and items salved" is an important consideration in granting a salvage award
citation_b.sentence: Id.; see also ANDREA DORIA, 836 F.Supp. at 1107 (relying extensively on the MDM Salvage factors, and considering plaintiffs “near-term ability to salvage the wreck,” his historical research, his capital investments into the salvage operation, and his still and video photography of the site); BROTHER JONATHAN, 883 F.Supp. at 1363 (requiring the salvor in possession to describe its archaeological preservation activities when applying for an extension of time of its exclusive salvage rights); 2 Thomas J. Schoenbaum, Admiralty and Maritime Law § 16-7, at 346 (2d ed. 1994) (submitting that the law of salvage, state and federal statutes, and international conventions “should be interpreted as requiring both a salvor and a finder of historic shipwreck to use proper archaeological techniques to preserve the scientific, historic, and archaeological integrity and provenance of the wreck”); cf. Columbus-America Discovery Group, 974 F.2d at 468 (emphasizing that “the degree to which salvors worked to proteet the historical and archaeological value of the wreck and items salved” is an important consideration in granting a salvage award).