(13) Extraordinary circumstances should include, but not be limited to, terrorist attacks, wars and military or civil armed conflicts, uprisings, military or illegal confiscations, labour conflicts, landing any sick, injured or dead person, search and rescue operations at sea or on inland waterways, measures necessary to protect the environment, decisions taken by traffic management bodies or port authorities, or decisions by the competent authorities with regard to public order and safety as well as to cover urgent transport needs.

The Commission has justified the continuation of EU fishing under such circumstances by noting the importance of the tuna canneries in Abidjan to the Côte d’Ivoire economy, suggesting that if the EU were to pull out of the agreement and stop landing tuna for the canneries, the civil strife could be even worse.

Canada's Third Division was put ashore from some of the very same landing craft that had survived Dieppe.

Now there is the stranded East Sea with 908 Kurdish refugees on board. For as long as Kurds are not safe from Turkish troops destroying entire villages on Iraqi territory, for as long as the Turkish government denies the Kurds any rights on its own territory and continues to persecute and expel the Kurdish people, for as long as the threat of war in the Middle East increases the Iraqi Kurds' fear of further genocide, many Kurdish people will sell their last remaining possessions in order to pay the traffickers who will unceremoniously dump them on the shores of Europe.

One of the people who instructed me at that time, Pipe Major Alec Graham, was a piper at Dieppe and one of the people who played the pipes on the landing craft as they came into the beach at Pourville where The Camerons along with the South Saskatchewan Regiment landed.

Just before dawn on August 19, 1942 a swarm of landing craft approached the coast around the French town of Dieppe on the English Channel.