Convention concerning Unemployment Indemnity in Case of Loss or Foundering of the Ship

presumption of seaworthiness when ship sinks in calm seas

Treaty between the United Kingdom and the United States providing for Reciprocal Rights for the United States and Canada in matters of Conveyance of Prisoners, and Wrecking and Salvage

Sinking (finding)

Convention No. 8 concerning Unemployment indemnity in case of Loss or Foundering of Ships

sink | founder

Mr. Svend J. Robinson (Burnaby—Douglas, NDP): Mr. Speaker, a six year old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, who survived the sinking of a boat illegally transporting him from Cuba to Florida, is now being held in the U.S. in blatant violation of both humanity and international law.

Since its foundation on 17th February 1863, the ICRC has worked ceaselessly to prevent suffering through developing, promoting and strengthening international humanitarian law, set out in the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, their Additional Protocols and other international agreements as well as in customary international law, and universal humanitarian principles, and through providing, in times of armed conflict and other emergencies, humanitarian assistance to wounded, sick and shipwrecked members of the armed forces, to prisoners of war and to other detainees, as well as to civilians.

What we got was the Meech Lake shipwreck.

The rules referred to in paragraph 1 of this Standard shall be without prejudice to any other rights a seafarer may have under the national law of the Member State concerned for losses or injuries arising from a ship’s loss or foundering.