Sea Pirates?? Here's the real deal.

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I think it is safe to say that the Admiralty Laws that the small coastal tow companies reference to make a salvage claims were really made for the shipping industry. I am talking ocean going salvage tugs that will put a line on a 90,000 ton DIW supertanker with 60 million dollars of crude aboard after getting approval from an insurance company.

To use the same laws to salvage a 100K sport fishing boat DIW drifting toward the rocks is wrong but legal.

These companys provide a service and it is proper to charge more than the membership fee for instances of "peril"....what that amount is.????

Read "Grey Seas Under" by Farley Mowat.....and old book about an ocean going salvage tug called Foundation Franklin.