Subject: us2alflus dilemma<br/>
Date: Oct 09, 2002 @ 16:41<br/>
Author: m donner (&quot;m donner&quot; &lt;maxivan82@hotmail.com&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1006796653">a few of the 20 federal maritime tripoints of the usa are problematic<br/>
especially alflus & latxus & the prusvi twins<br/>
all of which occur where the double standard of 3nm & 9nm maritime regimes <br/>
collide<br/>
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<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=16&n=3345177&e=453131&s=200&size=m&symshow=n">http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=16&n=3345177&e=453131&s=200&size=m&symshow=n</a><br/>
gives the usgs interpretation of alflus<br/>
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in it you can see the dashed alfl state line heading out to sea toward the <br/>
solid red line<br/>
for a distance of 3nm on the alabama side but 9nm on the florida side<br/>
to produce a tripoint at the sharp angle where the 2 regimes presumably meet<br/>
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this point would fall near the middle horizon in the attached photo<br/>
in which you can visualize alfl running thru the alley at lower right<br/>
& out to sea past the red flag on the beach<br/>
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but it seems to me that the usgs map errs<br/>
by not extending floridas 9nm of territorial waters westward everywhere <br/>
beyond alabamas 3nm<br/>
in a broad arc centered at the point where alfl leaves land in this photo<br/>
& thus all the way to about the middle of quadrant 795 on the existing red <br/>
line<br/>
thereby enclosing within florida waters all of quads 751 752 753 754 796 797 <br/>
& 798<br/>
& parts of 795 840 841 & 842<br/>
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such a revised tripoint position<br/>
which would truly satisfy the conditions of both regimes as much as possible<br/>
probably falls at or just beyond the right edge of the photo<br/>
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so if i am right<br/>
i may well have missed the point<br/>
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m<br/>
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