JP 3-50 National Search and Rescue Manual Vol I - US Navy

which shall act in close and continuing consultations with the launching
authority."
Article 3 of the agreement specifies: "If information is received
or it is discovered that the personnel of a spacecraft have alighted on
the high seas or in any other place not under the jurisdiction of any
State, those Contracting Parties which are in a position to do so shall,
if necessary, extend assistance in search and rescue operations for such
personnel to assure their speedy rescue. They shall inform the
launching authority and the Secretary-General of the United Nations of
the steps they are taking and of their progress."
BILATERAL AGREEMENTS
CANADA
Treaty Regarding Reciprocal Rights for the United States and Canada in
the Matters of Conveyance of Prisoners and Wrecking and Salvage
Signed at Washington May 18, 1908 (35 Stat. 2035; TIAS 502)
Article II of this treaty permits vessels and wrecking appliances,
either from the United States or from Canada, to salvage property
wrecked and to render aid and assistance to any vessels wrecked,
disabled, or in distress in that portion of the St. Lawrence River
through which the international boundary line extends; on Lake Ontario,
Lake Erie, Lake St. Clair, Lake Huron, and Lake Superior; on the
Niagara, Detroit, St. Clair, and Ste. Marie Rivers, and Canals at Sault
Ste. Marie; and on the shores and in the waters of the other country
along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts within a distance of 30 miles from
the international boundary on those coasts.
The reciprocal wrecking and salvage privileges include all
necessary towing, and nothing in the Customs, Coasting or other laws or
regulations of either country is to restrict in any manner the salving
operations of vessels or wrecking appliances.
Vessels from either country employed in salving in
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