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No, it’s international water and they have every right to be there.
by xwdv 6y ago
No, it’s international water and they have every right to be there.
- ceejayoz 6y agoTry getting close to a warship in international waters and you'll find that right has some... functional limits, though.
- tyingq 6y agoNot just a warship. Regular boats are also fed up with piracy and have some pretty nasty countermeasures.
- api 6y agoGreenpeace used a non-lethal attack involving stink bombs from hell... glass bottles filled with some kind of oily sulfurous compound that got on everything. I wonder if anyone in commercial shipping does that. Definitely not something you would want to test.
- iso947 6y agoUnless you’re a lighthouse
- SergeAx 6y agoDevil's advocating: I did exactly this several times in my sailing career. Military vessels are regulated by the same international laws and rules as all other sea navigation subjects. Fellow sailor crossed the course of Turkish submarine while under sail (meaning he had a right of passage). It was in Turkey's waters (!) about 10 years ago. Instead of changing course they made an emergency dive exercise.
- pcl 6y ago> Instead of changing course they made an emergency five exercise. It’s gotta be fun to have three dimensions of freedom available when making course changes. But man, I’d freak out if I were on the sailboat watching that happen!
- SergeAx 6y agoMe too! But he is a racer and was ready to do a quick tack just in case.
- waste_monk 6y agoIf it's painted grey, get out of the way!
- freehunter 6y agoRights vs responsibilities is a tricky subject these days.
- elliekelly 6y agoI could be totally wrong but I didn’t think any part of the Gulf of Mexico was considered international waters? I thought the US (and maybe/hopefully Mexico) had approval over oil rigs and such in the Gulf.
- ceejayoz 6y agoAnything more than 12 miles out is "international waters", but there's a 200 mile "exclusive economic zone". Mexico and Cuba have theirs; between the three nearly all the Gulf is covered. That said, international waters isn't actually a lawless zone. These boats are undoubtedly registered in the US, and thus subject to US law.
- caf 6y agoIt's 12 and 200 nautical miles, to be precise.
- criddell 6y agoEven if it is US territorial waters, why can't the private boats be there? I'm not saying they should be there, but legally is it different than if Musk flipped the CyberTruck on a public road and people walked around the crash site?
- elliekelly 6y agoPresumably there are some sort of "rules of the road" that govern how and where vessels can maneuver? I can't just drop anchor at the mouth of Boston Harbor and prevent everyone else from accessing it. Or maybe I can? I have no idea.
- pixl97 6y agoFor the same reason you can't be with in a particular distance of the take off. It is a public safety concern. And in those cases we afford law enforcement the ability to remove you from the scene.
- ceejayoz 6y ago