Funny how admiralty law can be so different from other fields of law. Indeed, that’s what admiralty attorneys like about it…unique, sometimes ancient, and, like a tangled fishing line, often confusing to non-marine practitioners.

Some admiralty law, such as marine salvage, is so old that it “pre-dates the Christian Era by nine hundred years,” as Judge Edward R. Korman observed in the Staten Island Ferry salvage decision.1

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