On Dec 31, 2008, at 3:47 PM, Stefano Mori wrote:
On 2008-Dec-31, at 20:44, Kevin Callahan wrote:
there might be different laws governing the Mediterranean ...
Even if there are, would you allow any vessel to come within say, 15
miles of USA's coastline?
Just looked on the wiki and this is what it says regarding territorial
waters:
Territorial waters, or a territorial sea, as defined by the 1982
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea[1], is a belt of
coastal waters extending at most twelve nautical miles from the
baseline(usually the mean low-water mark) of a coastal state. The
territorial sea is regarded as the sovereign territory of the state,
although foreign ships (both military and civilian) are allowed
innocent passagethrough it; this sovereignty also extends to the
airspace over and seabed below.
--Larry
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