Jan Wildeboer 😷
Will #oceangate pay for all the international rescue forces that try to save their 5 paying passengers? Or will that be paid by us tax payers? I am really angry. We let hundreds of refugees drown on their way from Africa to Europe but when rich people are in trouble, we send everything we have.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦@jwildeboer 💯
Kevin Karhan 
@jwildeboer Personally, I'd force them to pay the cost of the rescue op to every sigle cent since unlike those put in barges they didn't get forced into that sub at gunpoint!
KBrzozowski@jwildeboer What a great point. So unfair.
jack@jwildeboer I also find the difference in media attention quite... shocking (but not that surprising, alas).
Matija Å ukljeMaritime / Admirality law is relevant here.
When property is lost at sea and rescued by another, the rescuer is entitled to claim a salvage award on the salvaged property. There is no "life salvage": all mariners have a duty to save the lives of others in peril without expectation of reward. Consequently, salvage law applies only to the saving of property.
Clayfoot@jwildeboer US, Canadian, and French taxpayers, so far. The rescued do not have to pay the (usually US Coast Guard) rescuers anything, even if negligent. We don't want the Coast Guard or any other rescue force having to calculate whether a given victim can afford to be rescued.