Natl Security

the submerged offshore seabed and subsoil that constitutes the natural prolongation of the coastal state, but outside the territorial sea.

or 200nm from the baseline. Art 76

The coastal state could acquire the rights to the seabed if it occupied it for a long time.

sedentary fisheries and other mineral resources. @298

President Truman

The US has jurisdiction over the Continental shelf contiguous to the coastline.

It was the beginning of a recognized legal regime establishing the rights of the coastal state to the EEZ. @298

1) a line no more than 60nm from the foot of the continental slope

2) a line drawn by reference points at which the thickness of sediments is at least one percent of the shortest distance to the foot of the continental slope.

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