Article 111Right of hot pursuit1.The hot pursuit of a foreign ship may be undertaken when thecompetent authorities of the coastal State have good reason to believe that theship has violated the laws and regulations of that State. Such pursuit must becommenced when the foreign ship or one of its boats is within the internalwaters, the archipelagic waters, the territorial sea or the contiguous zone ofthe pursuing State, and may only be continued outside the territorial sea or thecontiguous zone if the pursuit has not been interrupted. It is not necessarythat, at the time when the foreign ship within the territorial sea or thecontiguous zone receives the order to stop, the ship giving the order shouldlikewise be within the territorial sea or the contiguous zone. If the foreignship is within a contiguous zone, as defined in article 33, the pursuit may onlybe undertaken if there has been a violation of the rights for the protection ofwhich the zone was established.2.The right of hot pursuit shall apply mutatis mutandis to violations inthe exclusive economic zone or on the continental shelf, including safetyzones around continental shelf installations, of the laws and regulations of thecoastal State applicable in accordance with this Convention to the exclusiveeconomic zone or the continental shelf, including such safety zones.3.The right of hot pursuit ceases as soon as the ship pursued enters theterritorial sea of its own State or of a third State.4.Hot pursuit is not deemed to have begun unless the pursuing ship hassatisfied itself by such practicable means as may be available that the shippursued or one of its boats or other craft working as a team and using the ship 64pursued as a mother ship is within the limits of the territorial sea, or, as thecase may be, within the contiguous zone or the exclusive economic zone orabove the continental shelf. The pursuit may only be commenced after avisual or auditory signal to stop has been given at a distance which enablesit to be seen or heard by the foreign ship.5.The right of hot pursuit may be exercised only by warships ormilitary aircraft, or other ships or aircraft clearly marked and identifiable asbeing on government service and authorized to that effect.6.Where hot pursuit is effected by an aircraft:(a) the provisions of paragraphs 1 to 4 shall applymutatis mutandis;(b) the aircraft giving the order to stop must itself actively pursuethe ship until a ship or another aircraft of the coastal State,summoned by the aircraft, arrives to take over the pursuit,unless the aircraft is itself able to arrest the ship. It does notsuffice to justify an arrest outside the territorial sea that the shipwas merely sighted by the aircraft as an offender or suspectedoffender, if it was not both ordered to stop and pursued by theaircraft itself or other aircraft or ships which continue thepursuit without interruption.7.The release of a ship arrested within the jurisdiction of a State andescorted to a port of that State for the purposes of an inquiry before thecompetent authorities may not be claimed solely on the ground that the ship,in the course of its voyage, was escorted across a portion of the exclusiveeconomic zone or the high seas, if the circumstances rendered this necessary.8.Where a ship has been stopped or arrested outside the territorial seain circumstances which do not justify the exercise of the right of hot pursuit,it shall be compensated for any loss or damage that may have been therebysustained.