Nightfighter versions equipped Navy and Marine units afloat and ashore. Additionally the navy also includes support units afloat and ashore. This improved their ability to absorb underwater damage and remain afloat. How do they justify this outrage to the taxpayers who are keeping the company afloat? It is the only ship of its kind still afloat. Prost had been unable to raise enough sponsorship to keep the team afloat. Government subsidies or mandates keep the entire worldwide industry afloat. It wasn't until 1931 that business owners began reducing wages in order to stay afloat. The salvage of a vessel that is damaged but still afloat is called afloat salvage. Enron attempted to sell off assets in an effort to stay afloat. He then found himself in frigid water, grasping a seat cushion to keep afloat. By negotiating with the banks he received a bridge loan to keep VEM afloat. Jameson later gives a financial bailout to Dexter Bennett to keep the "Bugle" afloat. Meanwhile the Ranger, still very much afloat, is doing her job. A number are preserved as museum ships, either afloat or in drydock.