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Would one receive a bill in a situation like this? To cover the cost of lost time and/or extra diesel burned? Or is it purely out of the goodness of the hearts

• callamdelaney 3y ago
  Not to my knowledge, and certainly not for boats like the small yacht being towed here. The idea is that if the it happened to you someone else would help.
  • notahacker 3y ago
    And sometimes what goes around comes around happens quicker than expected! Different scale, different waterways, but a couple of weeks after spending half an hour dragging a boat off a fallen tree, I got a tow off a trip boat full of people eating Christmas dinner after losing power in the middle of the Thames...
• willyt 3y ago
  Potentially. From the wikipedia article on ‘Marine salvage’: All vessels have an international duty to give reasonable assistance to other ships in distress in order to save life, but there is no obligation to try to salve the vessel. Any offer of salvage assistance may be refused; but if it is accepted a contract automatically arises to give the successful salvor the right to a reward under the 1989 Convention. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_salvage https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_salvage