An analysis of the regulation of salvage at sea, from the 1910 Brussels Convention 1910 to the 1989 Salvage Convention, the new Lloyd's Open Form (LOF 90) and the recent amendments to the York-Antwerp Rules. The book summarizes the recent history of the law of salvage, analyzing in detail the process by which individual aspects were shown to be in need of improvement, the discussion which followed and the outcome. It includes full commentary on the text of the 1989 Convention, and on LOF 90 and the changes to the York-Antwerp Rules, and covers recent decisions of the courts.