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[–] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Also there is a financial incentive. There is part of martime law about salvage rights. The person doing the rescuing has rights to the stuff they saved. Obviously it doesn't apply to just saving some person floating,. A ship with people, you get some rights to the value of the ship and its contents.

One of the more interesting examples https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/oldies-amp-oddities-the-alraigo-incident-10366728/