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==2.4 Salvage conventions==

Finally, there are two international conventions on salvage, both of which impose a requirement to render assistance at sea. The reason the salvage conventions impose this obligation is to ensure that priority is given to saving lives rather than property in a salvage situation.

The first is '''[[Brussels Convention on Assistance and Salvage at Sea|the Brussel Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules with Respect to Assistance and Salvage at Sea of 1910]]''', or simply the Brussels Convention. '''Article 11''' provides that:
 
''‘Every master is bound, so far as he can do so without serious danger to his vessel, her crew and her passengers, to render assistance to everybody, even though an enemy, found at sea in danger of being lost.''

The second is the International Convention on Salvage of 1989 (the Salvage Convention). Article 10 requires every ship’s master, ''“so far as he can do so without serious danger to his vessel and persons thereon, to render assistance to any person in danger of being lost at sea”'' and imposes a duty on state parties to adopt the measures necessary to enforce that duty.