This document discusses definitions and classifications related to shipwrecks and salvage operations. It defines what constitutes a "wreck" according to various laws and conventions including sunken or stranded ships and objects from ships. It also discusses the agencies and international laws involved in salvage operations as well as classifications of salvage services. Finally, it outlines topics like apportionment of salvage awards, the role of coastal states, and policies regarding ownership of shipwrecks.

1. 1. INTRODUCTION
2. BILL (2015) (APPLICATION TO WRECKS)
SECTION 390A.“Wreck”, in relation to maritime casualty, includes –
(i) a sunken or stranded ship; or
(ii) any part of a sunken or stranded ship, including any object or goods or
cargo that is or has been on board such a ship; or
(iii) any object or goods or cargo that is lost at sea from a ship and that is stranded,
sunken or drift at sea; or
(iv) a ship that is in distress or is about, or may reasonably he expected, to sink or to strand,
where effective measures to assist the ship or any property in danger are not already being
taken;
BILL 2016 SECTION 212 – Same as above

2. 3. INDIAN M S ACT 958 PROVIDES :-
“wreck” includes the following when found in the sea or in tidal water
or on the shores thereof –
(a) goods which have been cast into the sea and then sink
and remain under water;
(b) goods which have been cast or fall into the sea and
remain floating on the surface;
(c) goods which are thrown away or abandoned; and
(d) a vessel abandoned without hope or intention of recovery;

3. 4. OTHER AGENCIES INVOLVED IN SALVAGE OPERATIONS.
5. INTERNATIONAL LAW APPLICABLE
1989 SALVAGE CONVNETION 2001 WRECK CONVENTION LOS / SOLAS,
SUNKEN CONVENTION ETC.
6. CLASSIFICATION OF SALVAGE SERVICES
(LOF / SCOPIC CLAUSE)
7. APPORTIONMENT OF AWARD (DR SUTTON RESEARCH)

4. 8. THE ROLE OF COASTAL STATE AUTHORITIES.
9. REVIEW SUGGESTIONS ON THE SALVAGE CONVENTION (1989)
BY “ISU” AND OTHERS
10. SALVAGE AS BETWEEN VESSELS AND AIRCRAFT.
11. LAW OF FINDS AND SALVAGE.
12. HISTORIC AND MILITARY WRECK SALVAGE.

5. 13. SALVAGE THIEVES.
14. IN APROPRIATENESS OF COMMERCIAL SALVAGE
PRINCIPLES IN TREASURE SALVAGE.
15.OWNERSHIP OF SHIPWRECKS AND SHIPWRECK ARTIFACTS.
16. ELECTRONIC PROGRAMME SALVAGE.
17. WRECK POLICIES OF NATIONS AND INDIA.
18. TRAINING FOR SALVAGE.
19. SALVAGE FACILITIES IN INDIA.

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