I understand that many of the humanitarian safeguards and international law can be disadvantageous when only one side gets things right.
But those are important guarantees, they are even used to differentiate the supposedly “good and civilized”, if they are discarded every time they are inconvenient, aren’t they just dead letter?
Moreover, when their owners fall into the water they do not attack or intimidate them. Probably, like most animals, they don’t even understand that boats are inanimate things controlled by humans.