Persons, whether military or civilian, who are in peril at sea or in other waters as a result of misfortune affecting them or the vessel or aircraft carrying them and who refrain from any act of hostility. These persons, provided that they continue to refrain from any act of hostility, continue to be considered shipwrecked during their rescue until they acquire another status (wounded, sick, prisoner of war). See also Wounded and Sick; Hospital ships;
OUTLINE
LEGAL SOURCE
GCII, 12 (see ICRC updated Commentary), 21 (see ICRC updated Commentary)
DOCUMENT
CASES
Israel, Navy Sinks Dinghy off Lebanon
British Military Court at Hamburg, The Peleus Trial
BIBLIOGRAPHIC RESOURCES
SOLF Waldemar A., “Development of the Protection of the Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked under the Protocols Additional to the 1949 Geneva Conventions”, in Studies and Essays on International Humanitarian Law and Red Cross Principles in Honour of Jean Pictet, Geneva/The Hague, ICRC/M. Nijhoff, 1984, pp. 237-248