" In the event of a collision or any other incident of navigation concerning a ship on the high seas, involving the penal or disciplinary responsibility of the master or of any other person in the service of the ship, no penal or disciplinary proceedings may be instituted against such person except before the judicial or administrative authorities either of the flag State or of the State of which such person is a national."
DEFINITION OF TERMS IN THIS CLAUSE
β‘ a piece of fabric, usually hung from a pole, to indicate a nationality of a vessel.
β‘ to be registered to a specific country(the flag state) and use their flag while sailing.
β‘ State in which the vessel is recognised at international law as being registered, that is, the state under whose laws a vessel is registered, whose flag a vessel is entitled to fly .
β‘ the salt water that covers most of the earth's surface and surrounds its continents and islands
β‘ a large boat that carries people or goods across the seas or oceans