Subject: but how could tides change a border<br/>
Date: Jun 22, 2004 @ 17:58<br/>
Author: aletheiak (&quot;aletheiak&quot; &lt;aletheiak@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-590726838"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2004/s1137965.htm">http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2004/s1137965.htm</a><br/>
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but<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/collection/LimitsinSeas/IBS164.pdf">http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/collection/LimitsinSeas/IBS164.pdf</a> <br/>
says the border has been well delineated since 1975 <br/>
as the shatt al arab thalweg<br/>
including 60 plotted points upon it<br/>
<br/>
it also states however that this border changes not just with <br/>
accretions but even with avulsions<br/>
<br/>
yikes<br/>
never heard of that before<br/>
<br/>
but i should think such a high stepping thalweg must trump its <br/>
fixed geodetic points practically as soon as they are established <br/>
& recorded<br/>
<br/>
& it was evidently for this reason that saddam & the shah even <br/>
agreed at the time to revise the control points every 10 years<br/>
tho i doubt they or their successors ever have done so<br/>
<br/>
but i imagine the reporter was just referring to the fact that a high <br/>
flowing tide tends to obscure the channel unless it is marked<br/>
<br/>
but even if the border & channel arent marked<br/>
as seems to be the case<br/>
i still have to wonder how these sailors could have missed such <br/>
an obvious border<br/>
since they were reportedly captured with maps on them<br/>
<br/>
also how did the british government know they had violated <br/>
iranian territory<br/>
& immediately admitted they were tresspassing<br/>
despite having been completely out of touch with them since <br/>
before they went missing<br/>
<br/>
must be a lot more here than meets than eye</div>