Salvage Operations within Coastal State Marine Environmental Protection Measures and Salvors' Environmental Services under international instruments outside of the Law of Salvage

This chapter examines the practical and legal placement of salvors within coastal State pollution response measures and the extent to which salvors can avail themselves of remuneration possibilities outside of salvage law. It demonstrates the utility of contractual arrangements to integrate commercial salvors into measures directed at the prevention of pollution from ships. In relation to remuneration possibilities under the Civil Liability and Fund Conventions, it demonstrates how the contractual integration of salvage capability in pollution response measures would facilitate the equitable spread of costs where salvage operations involve pollution prevention efforts.