The need to save ships, cargo and people
in distress at sea is inextricably linked
with the development of navigation, the history
of which goes back centuries and millennia. Marine emergency rescue practice has developed
means and methods of rescue. Many ships sank,
and their cargo and metal parts, including anchors and cannons, were of considerable value
at that time. The need to raise them after shipwrecks, especially in coastal waters, forced, for
example, to solve diving problems, and the need
to prevent accidents – emergency rescue tasks.
Helping each other at sea in times of danger was
already a tradition of seafaring brotherhood, a
law of the seafaring comradeship. On the vast
expanses of the sea, a vessel in danger calls out
to the experienced and the brave – those who
seek the reward of salvage rights.