Subject: Dry Tortugas<br/>
Date: Dec 07, 2003 @ 23:55<br/>
Author: Lowell G. McManus (&quot;Lowell G. McManus&quot; &lt;mcmanus71496@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1111795225">Mike,<br/>
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I&#39;ve cut out the mounting clutter and re-titled the thread.<br/>
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You wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; thanx very much for this choice morsel in any case<br/>
&gt; & you can see here that the usgs still doesnt have it right<br/>
&gt; <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://topozone.com/map.asp?lat=24.66472&lon=-82.85556">http://topozone.com/map.asp?lat=24.66472&lon=-82.85556</a><br/>
&gt; but draws the line between the 3nm & 9nm regimes<br/>
&gt; on an east west basis rather than the north south line you specify<br/>
&gt; something i had always suspected they had done arbitrarily<br/>
&gt; but couldnt prove until now<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Those TopoZone links never work right for me.  After 15 minutes of trying to get<br/>
to something recognizable from the various settings at the linked URL, I gave up<br/>
and went to TerraServer.  There I easily found the big picture on the Dry<br/>
Tortugas at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://tinyurl.com/y5w2">http://tinyurl.com/y5w2</a> .<br/>
<br/>
Here you can see that this 1989 map has both east-west and north-south<br/>
components to the division between the different Gulf and the Atlantic state<br/>
waters regimes.  Admittedly, the source from which I took the description that I<br/>
gave was rather simplistic.  My point and that of the source was more that the<br/>
Submerged Lands Act did trump the pre-existing state claims in the Atlantic<br/>
(however defined).  I will endeavor to research the actual SCOTUS decision and<br/>
render a full report.<br/>
<br/>
Lowell G. McManus<br/>
Leesville, Louisiana, USA</div>