China Yantai Salvage is a national maritime rescue and salvage organisation operating under the Ministry of Transport of the People's Republic of China, with its main base in Yantai on the Shandong Peninsula. The bureau combines emergency rescue, wreck removal, offshore engineering, and commercial diving services in a single operational structure that has rescued more than three thousand seafarers and salvaged over four hundred Chinese and foreign vessels during more than four decades of activity along the Yellow Sea, Bohai, and East China Sea coasts.
Specialist marine services for shipowners, insurers, and offshore operators cover underwater inspection and in-water survey of hulls, sea chests, rudders, propellers, anchors, and submerged appendages, hatch cover ultrasonic tightness testing, hull ultrasonic thickness gauging, watertight integrity testing, and non-destructive testing of structural welds and machinery components. The diving department operates a 120-metre saturation diving system, mixed-gas surface-supplied diving, ROV-supported subsea intervention to 3,000 metres, diamond rope saw cutting, underwater hole drilling, and wreck cargo recovery, supported by a fleet that includes salvage tugs, derrick and pipelay vessels such as DE HE 5000T, deep-water construction vessels, and barges.
Operational personnel include sixty-seven professional divers, with sixteen holding CDSA diving supervisor certification, four holding ADCI saturation diver qualifications, twenty holding CDSA mixed-gas diver tickets, and ten certified as underwater non-destructive examination technicians by Lloyd's Register and the China Classification Society. The bureau holds first-class national marine salvage qualification and is recognised by the American Bureau of Shipping and the China Classification Society for ship survey work along northern Chinese coastal ports.
