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"Legacy wrecks as threats" [2019] ELECD 2398; in Forrest, Craig (ed), "Maritime Legacies and the Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) 176

Book Title: Maritime Legacies and the Law

Editor(s): Forrest, Craig

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section: Chapter 5

Section Title: Legacy wrecks as threats

Number of pages: 17

Abstract/Description:

Chapter 5 considers the threats posed by legacy wrecks, as a navigational hazard, a pollution hazard and a threat to health and safety given the munitions and dangerous cargo that may have been aboard the legacy wreck when it sank. The legal regimes that apply to the elimination of such hazards in territorial waters and those that pose a threat to a State but lie beyond its territorial waters is explained and explored. The chapter considers the approach taken to these wrecks where the wreck has no commercial salvage value, and thus is not addressed directly through traditional admiralty law of salvage, or where the legacy value prevents salvage, but necessitates addressing the hazard.