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if it be a situation of apprehension
though not actual danger ie she's powerless and drifting
she's lawful salvage
throw the vessel a line seadog anons
can you imagine the adverse IO that a rescued vessel with disputed ownership claims generates?
A supervolcano of media coverage
containers of children, WMD, adrenochrome and Chinese bats unboxed on YT
>The second element is voluntary service. Voluntary service, the sine qua non of marine salvage, is rendered in the absence of a legal duty or obligation. Whatever motive impels the true volunteer, be it monetary gain, humanitarian purposes or merely error, it will not detract from the status accorded him by law.
Doesn't matter who gets a line on the containership - could be a sailboat or a dingy-or an undersea vessel or a flying triangular disk; that vessel has the priority claim