How will you ask for salvage ?

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When a vessel is in peril, the master must immediately assess the threat and decide urgently whether assistance, including salvage assistance, is needed or not. The master should always over-react on the side of safety and pollution prevention rather than delay in the hope that the situation may improve.
The master of a vessel in peril should -
- seek advice and instructions from the shipowner, but only if time allows. If the urgency of the situation does not permit communications with the owners of the property in peril, the master will usually have authority to act on his own initiative (i.e. as an agent of necessity).
- immediately request assistance if he thinks it necessary for the safety of the ship, crew and cargo.
- accept the assistance that seems the most reasonable, taking into account the possible value of the assisting ships, her ability to perform the salvage services and the amount of her deviation from her intended route.
- try to obtain agreement to Lloyd’s Open Form 2011 before accepting any salvage services offered.
- give the salvor all possible assistance to enable him to do the job, remembering, however, that the more that can be done by the ship’s crew, the less will be the salvor’s reward and the cost to the shipowner and cargo owners. (Professional salvors may well want to do everything, in order to maximise their reward.)
- gather contemporaneous evidence relating to:
the terms on which assistance was offered and accepted (e.g. witnessed log entries of radio messages);
details of assisting vessels and their equipment used (e.g. ropes, pumps, etc.);
any measures taken before the salvor’s arrival, and measures that might have taken to save the ship had
salvors not arrived (i.e. “sue and labour” cost items);
any damage to the ship, injuries to crew, etc.;
assistance rendered by the ship’s crew, the master and the ship’s own equipment during the salvage
services

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