Section 141Part 6 — PREVENTION OF COLLISIONS AND SAFETY OF NAVIGATION
Duty to assist ships in distress
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141. (1) The master of a Cayman Islands ship, on receiving at sea a signal from any source that a ship or aircraft or a survival craft thereof is in distress, shall proceed with all speed to the assistance of the persons in distress, informing them, if possible, that the master is doing so, and if —
the master is unable to do so; or
in the special circumstances of the case the master considers it unreasonable or unnecessary to proceed to their assistance, the master shall enter in the log book of the ship the reason for failing to proceed to the assistance of the persons in distress.
The master of a ship shall be released from the duty imposed by subsection (1) as soon as the master is informed of the requisition of one or more ships, other than the master’s ship under section 142, and that the requisition is being complied with by the ship or ships requisitioned.