A salvage situation arise when a shipowner accepts an offer of help from a salvor. Frustrated by Salvor Hardin, he despairs and commits suicide. Low-order salvage occurs where the salvor is exposed to little or no personal risk. USS "Salvor" was decommissioned and transferred to the Military Sealift Command in January 2007. Yohan Lee is one of Salvor Hardin's advisors and friends. Michael Hatcher (born 1940) is a British explorer and marine salvor. The Mayor of Terminus City, Salvor Hardin, proposes to play the planets against each other. Leah Harvey will play Salvor, the protective and intuitive warden of a remote outer planet. On 27 May divers from "Salvor" examined the starboard auxiliary power units of . During the shakedown cruise, "Salvor" and collided during tow and be towed exercises. "Salvor" at Nawilwili, Kauai for a port visit from 5 to 6 December. "Salvor" departed for the return transit to Pearl Harbor on 29 December 1996. Following shakedown training, "Salvor" conducted diving operations from 26 to 30 January.