--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "aletheiak"
<aletheiak@y...> wrote:

> http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2004/s1137965.htm
>
> but
>

http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/collection/LimitsinSeas/IBS164.pdf

> says the border has been well delineated since 1975
> as the shatt al arab thalweg
> including 60 plotted points upon it
>
> it also states however that this border changes not just with
> accretions but even with avulsions
>
> yikes
> never heard of that before
>
> but i should think such a high stepping thalweg must trump its
> fixed geodetic points practically as soon as they are

established

> & recorded
>
> & it was evidently for this reason that saddam & the shah even
> agreed at the time to revise the control points every 10 years
> tho i doubt they or their successors ever have done so
>
> but i imagine the reporter was just referring to the fact that a

high

> flowing tide tends to obscure the channel unless it is marked
>
> but even if the border & channel arent marked
> as seems to be the case
> i still have to wonder how these sailors could have missed

such

> an obvious border
> since they were reportedly captured with maps on them
>
> also how did the british government know they had violated
> iranian territory
> & immediately admitted they were tresspassing
> despite having been completely out of touch with them since
> before they went missing
>
> must be a lot more here than meets than eye

there was
http://www.iranmania.com/news/010704k.asp