lagend
Noun: - Goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered: This term refers to sunken cargo or debris that has been marked with a buoy to facilitate its future retrieval from the ocean floor.
The word "lagend" is a specific nautical term. It is used to describe the state or condition of submerged items that have been buoyed for recovery. - The salvage team located the ship's lagend and began recovery operations. - The buoy marks the lagend, preventing other ships from dragging their anchors through the site.
- "To buoy a lagend": The act of attaching a buoy to sunken goods to mark their location.
- The first priority after the sinking was to buoy the lagend before the currents could scatter it.
- Lagan (n): An alternative, more common historical spelling for "lagend," referring to goods cast overboard and buoyed for recovery.
- Jetsam (n): Goods thrown overboard to lighten a ship, especially those that sink.
- Flotsam (n): The floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo.
- Buoyed wreckage
- Marked seabed goods
"Lagend" is a highly specialized and archaic term. In modern maritime law and practice, the more common term is "lagan." Both words refer to the same concept: goods on the sea floor that are deliberately marked by a buoy to indicate the owner's intention to recover them, thus maintaining a claim to the property. It is distinct from flotsam (floating wreckage) and jetsam (goods jettisoned and sunk).
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goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered
