(1) A “salvor” is defined as a party that goes to the aid of the following ships or other property:
1. a sea-going ship or inland waterway vessel or other property that is in danger at sea;
2. a sea-going ship that is in distress in inland waters; or
3. an inland waterway vessel or other property that is in danger in inland waters, insofar as the assistance is provided from a sea-going ship.
(2) The term “ship” as used in subsection (1) also covers floating equipment or a floating structure. The term “property” as used in subsection (1) also covers a jeopardised claim to freight. However, the following is not deemed a ship or other property within the meaning of subsection (1):
1. an object attached permanently and intentionally to the shoreline;
2. a fixed or floating platform, or a mobile offshore drilling rig, such platform or rig being engaged on site in the exploration, exploitation or production of sea-bed mineral resources.
(3) The salvor owes the following duties to the owner of the ship or other property to which it renders assistance: to carry out the operations with due care; to seek assistance from other salvors whenever circumstances reasonably require; and to accept the intervention of other salvors when reasonably requested to do so by the skipper, master or owner of the ship in distress, or by the owner of the other property in danger.
(4) The owner and the skipper or master of a ship in distress, as well as the owner of the other property in danger owe a duty to the salvor to co-operate in every regard with the salvor during the course of the salvage measures. Once the ship or other asset has been brought to a place of safety, the persons listed in sentence 1 will be obliged to accept re-delivery of the ship or of the other property upon being reasonably requested to do so by the salvor.