🔍 Key Concepts

• Foreign Articles as an employment contract between seaman and vessel on foreign voyages • Circumstances when a seaman may lawfully demand discharge or release from the contract • Differences between safety/discipline issues and wage/employment contract issues

💭 Think About

• Which option describes a situation that directly affects the validity or fairness of the employment contract itself, not just safety or discipline on board? • In which case would the law be especially concerned about protecting the seaman from financial or contractual harm? • Which of these situations would normally be handled by reporting to authorities or correcting a condition, rather than automatically ending the seaman’s contract?

✅ Before You Answer

• Identify which choice is clearly about contract/wage rights rather than just shipboard conditions or master’s behavior • Ask: in which case could the problem be corrected without ending the seaman’s contract? Those are less likely to trigger a legal right to release from Articles • Verify in your study material what specific event gives a seaman a legal ground to demand discharge from Foreign Articles on a foreign voyage