An extremely important contract for sleeping in the seas was adopted at the conference held in Hamburg on April 27, 1979. This important and necessary contract is a search and rescue contract at sea. The contract was approved on 27 August 1985 and came into force. What are we going to talk about in the contract that is accepted with the contract? Namely;

• Provisions regarding the coordination and provision of search and rescue services
• When they join the ship reporting system, the cost of this to ships
• Procedures and forms of international level should be foreseen to be used in the ship reporting system.
• Search and rescue manuals
• Developing hazard and security systems in maritime for worldwide use
• Frequencies required for search and rescue at sea
• Alignment between search and rescue services and maritime meteorology services
• Encouragement of technical collaborations

The above-mentioned items are general topics of the decisions taken. You can easily find the full text of this contract and examine it in detail. The decisions determined in the contract are the subjects that every seafarer must have a foundation.