http://www.quora.com/If-someone-commits-murder-at-sea-in-international-waters-could-they-be-prosecuted-for-the-crime http://www.quora.com/If-someone-commits-mur

http://www.quora.com/If-someone-commits-murder-at-sea-in-international-waters-could-they-be-prosecuted-for-the-crime http://www.quora.com/If-someone-commits-murder-at-sea-in-int... That is a related question about international waters (which has a similar sort of situation). the TL;DR is the US could go for it. My impression is that no country really puts jurisdiction into its laws except in certain explicit cases (like tax law). So if it's illegal to kill someone, I don't think any country will be like "well you did it outside of here so we're cool with it." Usually extradition is more linked to the fact that if you kill someone in Tokyo, chances are Japan has more detectives in place to prosecute you "fairly" (since they have all the evidence in place) than the US would, for example. IANAL, but I think jurisdiction is more of a term for the executive branch, like the police, than for the court system. Though it will come to place in things like standing