The Legal Implications of Shipwrecks

In most shipwrecks, marine salvage operations to lift a sunken ship and then tow it to a safe shoreline is not economically defensible, and this impedes the shipowner from caving in such an unaffordable obligation. This descriptive-analytical research investigated the legal implications of shipwrecks using library resources. From the literature, the owner's disobedience and unaccountability towards salvage operations due to exorbitant rates disagree with the legal principles and the content of the international convention, as this marine event exerts coastal damages to the host country, interrupts ships on their trajectories, and leftovers significantly adverse environmental impacts. Thus, all these need to be compensated by the shipowner or the flag state, which is a member of the Nairobi Convention. In parallel, there are environmental laws connected to public order acts which all lessen the shipowner's influence in refusing salvage operations. Collectively, the shipowner is prohibited from illegally leaving the sunken ship and its parts in nature even under the retribution tolerance clause.

کلیدواژه ها:

Shipowner ، Sunken ship ، Nairobi convention ، Legal challenges