Subject: PRVI<br/>
Date: Dec 16, 2003 @ 03:50<br/>
Author: Lowell G. McManus (&quot;Lowell G. McManus&quot; &lt;mcmanus71496@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1202206521">Earlier, in another context, Mike wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; & the problems of prusvin & prusvis are largely confined to figuring<br/>
&gt; out how to balance the effects of the 9nm regime of puerto rico with<br/>
&gt; those of the 3nm regime of the virgin islands<br/>
<br/>
&gt; probably by first giving the 3nm full effect<br/>
&gt; & then wrapping the 9nm around it as much as possible<br/>
<br/>
&gt; tho i could imagine giving them a proportional effect too<br/>
&gt; &or even cutting a clean meridional division between them<br/>
&gt; or some other solution<br/>
<br/>
&gt; but i assume this remains undone & so is only putative in any case<br/>
&gt; & therefore maybe not so pressing or problematic as the others<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>I, also, assume that this remains undone, but I can tell you exactly how it<br/>
would be done.<br/>
<br/>
The first paragraph of Article 12 of the Convention on the Territorial Sea and<br/>
Contiguous Zone says:<br/>
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<br/>
Where the coasts of two States are opposite or adjacent to each other, neither<br/>
of the two States is entitled, failing agreement between them to the contrary,<br/>
to extend its territorial sea beyond the median line every point of which is<br/>
equidistant from the nearest points on the baselines from which the breadth of<br/>
the territorial seas of each of the two States is measured.<br/>
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<br/>
So, there would first be drawn a median line between the two closest<br/>
Puertorriqueño and Virgin islands.  Then the respective 9nm and 3nm limits would<br/>
extend outward against, but in no wise beyond, the median line.  The median line<br/>
would squarely whack off the arc of each, the wider arc of Puerto Rico much more<br/>
bluntly so.<br/>
<br/>
The points PRUSVIN and PRUSVIS would be located where the Virgin 3nm arc<br/>
encounters the median line.<br/>
<br/>
Lowell G. McManus<br/>
Leesville, Louisiana, USA</div>