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89 Tul. L. Rev. 1267 (2014-2015)

handle is hein.journals/tulr89 and id is 1345 raw text is: The Seafarer's Ancient Duty To Rescue and Modem Attempts To Regulate and Criminalize the Good Samaritan Jeffrey Maltzman* Mona Ehrenreicht He that would sail without danger must never come on the main sea. -Ancient Seaman's Proverb For centuries, seafaring was a profession for adventurers. Without the modem benefits of weather satellites, radio communication, radar, and accurate charts, long-distance sea voyages were dangerous and risky enterprises. A successful voyage could be a source of great wealth for a shipowner and his captain. But the risks of storms, uncharted shoals, unseaworthy vessels, pirates, and disease made seafaring a uniquely dangerous profession. For this reason, seafarers for centuries have recognized an unwritten moral obligation to render aid to fellow seafarers in distress.' It was not until the twentieth century, however, that the world's maritime nations unified to adopt an almost universally accepted international statutory duty requiring ships to render assistance to others.! In 1910, at the Third International Conference on Maritime Law held in Brussels, Belgium, the United States and more than twenty other seafaring nations drafted the International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules with Respect to Assistance and © 2015 Jeffrey Maltzman and Mona Ehrenreich. * Jeffrey Maltzman is the principal partner at Maltzman & Partners, with offices in California and Florida, and is a graduate of Stanford Law School. He is a certified legal specialist in admiralty and maritime law by the State Bar of California. Harvard Law School student Dina Guenther assisted in the preparation of this Article. t Mona Ehrenreich is the Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the Holland America Group, which includes Princess Cruises, Holland America Line, and Seabour. She is a graduate of the McGeorge School of Law. 1. See, e.g., Frederick J. Kenney, Jr. & Vasilios Tasikas, The Tampa Incident: IMO Perspectives and Responses on the Treatment of Pemsons Rescued at Sea, 12 PAC. RIM L. & POL'Y J. 143, 148 (2003). 2. See, e.g., Jason Parent, No Duty To Save Lives, No Reward for Rescue: Is That Truly the Current State of International Salvage Law 12 ANN. SURV. INT'L & CoMe. L. 87, 91-92 (2006). 1267

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