Sea protest

A transfiguration or a Seeprotest called in shipping an affidavit of the captain of a crashed or damaged ship and its crew to the happening of an accident at sea, and the extent of the damage occurred, for example, to the transported cargo.

The Transfiguration is put forward before the diplomatic representation abroad ( at least Consulate ) of the country under whose flag he goes, in the next port he starts. Is there no diplomatic representation of the country exist, it must make his protest at the harbor office. In Germany, a German before the competent district court a Seeprotest store ( § 522 HGB, § 145 FGG ).