noun
- Goods or wreckage lying on the bed of the sea, sometimes marked by a buoy for later recovery.
Usage: nautical; legal; plural of lagan
Examples
- The salvage company searched the ocean floor for lagans from the sunken merchant vessel.
- Maritime law distinguishes between flotsam, jetsam, and lagans based on their location and origin.
- Divers recovered valuable lagans that had been marked with buoys decades earlier.
- The insurance claim covered the loss of lagans abandoned on the seabed.