1. salvaged
The wreckage of the ship was salvaged after it had gone to Davy Jones's locker.
The vodka he had brought to the party contained flecks of gold, which turned out to have been salvaged from discarded electronics, making for a lot of carcinogenic cocktails.
2. survivor
The sole survivor of the crash was a baby.
There was a terrible plane crash and sadly there were no survivors.
The firefighters rescued the survivors.
He's the only survivor.
He was the only survivor., He was the sole survivor of the catastrophe