North Korea's estimated splashdown of the missiles would place them just outside Guam's 12-nautical-mile territorial waters, but well within its 200-nautical-mile Exclusive Economic Zone.
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These are essentially no-fly zones reaching up to 28,999 feet within a 30-nautical-mile radius of the president (a nautical mile is just over a regular mile).
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In addition, the tribunal established a 2.5 nautical mile-wide and some 10 nautical mile-long corridor through Croatian waters to give Slovenia much-coveted direct access to international waters.
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In addition, the tribunal established a 2.5 nautical-mile wide and some 10 nautical-mile long corridor through Croatian waters to give Slovenia much-coveted direct access to international waters.
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Indonesia claims that the boat was just four kilometres off the Natuna islands, well within Indonesia's 12 nautical-mile territorial limit, let alone its 200-nautical-mile "exclusive economic zone" (EEZ).
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Kuwait said on Tuesday the second spill spanned one nautical mile.
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We see the heavy ending coming from a nautical mile away.
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North Korea's estimated splashdown of the missiles would place them just outside Guam's 12 nautical mile territorial waters, but well within its 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone -- waters where locals fish for tuna and blue marlin.
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Mudholkar said their team was about one nautical mile from the island.
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The FAA has deemed a 2-nautical mile radius a protected area.
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Rescue operations were going on about one nautical mile south of Lamma Island.
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It seats a total of 366 passengers and boasts an 8,000 nautical mile range.
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Singapore and Los Angeles operated by Singapore Airlines, a near-7,650-nautical mile route…
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The S302 is 31,000 pounds, and features a 60 nautical mile range at five knots.
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The S302 is 31,000 pounds, and featured a 60 nautical mile range at five knots.
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The superyacht has a top speed of 24 knots and a 5,000 nautical mile range.
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It has a 4,000 nautical mile range and a maximum cruising altitude of 45,000 feet.
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One of those islands is located within the Philippines' 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone.
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The Shanghai Maritime Bureau has drawn a 248-nautical-mile avoidance area around the SANCHI.
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The 22019-nautical mile course starts in Sydney Harbor, and it is always a show.
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The Longitude, with a 3,500-nautical-mile range, is due to be certified next year.
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The 9003,2900 nautical mile (2350,2900 kilometer) flight from Singapore to Newark, New Jersey with 161 business class and premium economy seats will eclipse the 7,843 nautical mile Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Auckland as the world's longest, according to airline data provider OAG.
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Houston-Sydney operated by a United Airlines Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, a 7,470-nautical mile route…
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It states that drones aren't allowed within one nautical mile in all directions up to 1,000 feet.
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That would leave the Greater Sunrise field completely inside Timor-Leste's 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone.
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But its "nine-dash line" overlaps with Indonesia's 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone surrounding the islands.
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Under the 1982 UNCLOS, islands grant their owners a 12 nautical mile radius of sovereign territorial waters.
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The final margin was 61 seconds: a blink of the eye after a 5,700 nautical mile trek.
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The zone has a 2 nautical mile radius and bars flights below 3,000 feet, according to the FAA.
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Sub-600 nautical mile flights represent about half of global departures, and they have an outsize environmental impact.
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The ships were spotted on Friday having entered South Africa's 200 nautical mile economic exclusion zone without permits.
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Same goes for Veep Mike Pence's home in Indiana ... there's now a 1-nautical mile radius airspace restriction.
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A statement carried by state news agency KUNA said the new oil leak was a nautical mile long.
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China's top-of-the-line bomber is capable of reaching a nearly 1,900-nautical-mile (3,500-kilometer) radius.
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To remain safe, carriers must stay ever-farther out to sea, their usefulness dropping with every nautical mile.
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It&aposs unlikely that Israel will let the boats exceed the six-nautical-mile limit it imposes on Gaza.
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The Oslo interim peace accords in the early 1990s set a 20 nautical mile limit, which was never implemented.
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Upon completion of the training mission the bombers returned to Guam completing a 7,000-nautical mile round-trip mission.
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The 381-nautical mile route between Australia's two largest economic hubs generates the most revenue for flag carrier Qantas.
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Race veterans say that approaching this rough-and-tumble, 628-nautical-mile racecourse as a monolith can be overwhelming.
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The only thing Duterte had ruled out were joint patrols beyond the Philippines' 12-nautical mile territorial waters, Yasay said.
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The airline operates numerous flights a day on the 263-nautical mile route competing with FlyDubai, Emirates, and Cathay Pacific.
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He noted that no country contests Canada's rights to a 200 nautical mile-wide economic zone along its Arctic coastline.
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"We found debris," BASARNAS chief Bambang Soelistyo told Reuters, adding his team were searching in a 200 square nautical mile area.
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A one nautical mile safety zone was established around the vessel, the U.S. Coast Guard Southeast said on its Twitter account.
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Boeing's first version is said to be the NMA-6X, a 228-passenger medium-range aircraft with a 5,000 nautical mile range.
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Ships are also being sailed more efficiently, often by slowing them down, which reduces the amount of fuel consumed per nautical mile.
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That's what Rolls-Royce is working on with their autonomous naval vessel concept that plans to have a 3,500 nautical-mile range.
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Drones cannot be flown within a 10 nautical mile radius of the area surrounding the president's estate, during the time he's there.
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He has also called on China to respect the 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone granted to coastal states under international law.
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The first version is said to be the NMA-6X, a 228-passenger medium-range aircraft with a 5,000 nautical mile range.
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Most crucially, it granted the Alpine country of two million people direct access to international waters via a 10-nautical-mile corridor.
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Last week, on May 653, Mr. Savin, 72, completed his 3,125-nautical-mile trip on the Dutch Caribbean island of St. Eustatius.
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The 112-nautical mile route will be replaced by a new link to Charlotte, which will also be operated by American Airlines.
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Most are found on parts of the ocean floor like the CCZ, outside the 22-nautical-mile exclusive economic zones of littoral countries.
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"Kuwait's Environment Public Authority (EPA) announced a new one-nautical-mile-long oil spill in the coastal area of Abu Fatira," KUNA reported.
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Now, the first version is reported to be the NMA-28X, a 7971-passenger medium-range aircraft with a 2373,000 nautical mile range.
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The 628-nautical-mile sprint from Sydney Harbor to Hobart, on the island of Tasmania, is a maritime rite of passage in Australia.
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That ring is expected to expand to a 10-nautical-mile radius — covering almost all of Manhattan — when the president is in town.
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A blue sky greeted the fleet of 157 and InfoTrack led the pack at the 75th edition of the 630 nautical mile race.
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The incident began Monday near Puerto Madryn, Argentina, the coast guard said, within the 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone off the country's coast.
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That was followed by another spill at Abu Fatira, about 15 miles (25 km) south of the capital Kuwait City, spanning one nautical mile.
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With a 6,000 nautical-mile range and the ability to fly at Mach 0.89, the jet is a dynamic option for VIPs and executives.
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The reef is the closest of the artificial islands that China has developed to the Philippines, and within its 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone.
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The exact timing of the exercise and which ship would travel inside a 12-nautical mile limit around a disputed feature was not immediately clear.
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The restaurant is above (and shares ownership with) E.B. Elliot's, a quintessential Nautical Mile establishment with a happy hour and prime rib and lobster nights.
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The destroyer sailed within waters claimed by China, close to but not within the 12-nautical-mile territorial limits of the islands, the officials said.
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According to the California Science Center, the tank has taken a 4,400 nautical mile journey from New Orleans, through the Panama Canal, and now to California.
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Under the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, 12-nautical-mile limits cannot be set around man-made islands built on previously submerged reefs.
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The Reed Bank contains offshore gas reserves that both countries claim ownership of, despite it being located within the Philippines' 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone.
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Because if the United Nations' court rules that they are islands, then they come with what's called a 200 nautical-mile "exclusive economic zone" (EEZ) around them.
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Since 2012, China has deployed its coastguard to block the shoal from Filipinos, despite being located inside the 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone of the Philippines.
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Hundred-decibel-level sounds include a motorcycle, farm tractor or jackhammer at close proximity, or a commercial aircraft coming in for landing at one nautical mile away.
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And Perth-London operated by a Qantas 787-9 Dreamliner, a 7,829-nautical mile route that became the first nonstop link between Australia and the United Kingdom.
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With a few exceptions, like for law enforcement and medical emergencies, aircraft are now prohibited within a one-nautical-mile radius of Trump Tower in New York.
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He has also called on China, which claims most of the sea, to respect the 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone granted to coastal states under international law.
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The 38,000 nautical mile trip will take in the Arctic, the Galapagos Islands, the South Pacific islands and central ocean areas where plastic accumulates because of circulating currents.
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Known as the Nautical Mile, this stretch of honky-tonk bars, live music venues and no-frills seafood houses long ago embraced boardwalk Americana and never let go.
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According to the South Korean coast guard, the Chinese ships were one nautical mile within the fisheries agreement line, and were ordered to retreat back to international waters.
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Last year, however, Indonesia and China had the three maritime skirmishes within Indonesia's 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone off its Natuna Islands, which lie northwest of Borneo.
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The drones were nabbed Thursday for violating a temporary flight restriction within a 30-nautical-mile radius of the Mercedes-Benz stadium, the FAA and the FBI said.
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In warm weather, especially on weekends, the rebuilt seafood restaurants and bars with waterfront seating in the stretch of Woodcleft Avenue known as the Nautical Mile teem with tourists.
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In 2016, an international tribunal ruled that because the outpost was a reef that was submerged at high tide, it did not qualify for 12-nautical mile territorial waters.
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The FAA said it's currently restricting drones within one nautical mile of the stadium, but that the flight ban will stretch to 30 nautical miles beginning at 5:30 p.m.
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Swimmer Ben Lecomte, who is finishing up a 331 nautical mile paddle through the Pacific Garbage Patch, a "Single-use plastic is something that we can stop using," he said.
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Jackson and her 2500 Ocean Respect Racing crewmates are now aboard Wild Oats X for one of yachting's great spectacles: the annual 211-nautical-mile sprint from Sydney to Tasmania.
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According to MPA, the Crystal Sunrise was picking up her pilot near the designated western pilot boarding ground when the collision took place about one nautical mile south of Tuas Extension.
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But around midnight, he said, a Chinese Coast Guard vessel, which had been following the Indonesian ship, approached it on or inside the 12-nautical-mile line marking Indonesia's territorial waters.
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The British Navy has previously sailed close to the disputed Spratly Islands, further south in the South China Sea, but not within the 12 nautical mile limit, diplomatic sources have said.
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Previous U.S. "freedom of navigation operations" in the Spratly archipelago have involved "innocent passage," in which a warship effectively recognizes a 12-nautical-mile territorial sea by crossing it speedily, without stopping.
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A United Nations convention states that it will grant undersea sovereignty to any country that can prove its continental shelf extends beyond the 230-nautical-mile margin currently recognized under international law.
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While Duterte has been sanguine about ties with China, Lorenzana is more wary, saying that Beijing's fortification of manmade islands inside the Philippines' 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone has not abated.
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Concerns were growing that the tanker may explode and sink while a flotilla of 13 search and rescue vessels comb a 900-square-nautical-mile area around the ship for the crew.
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In addition to the mountain lion project, Conservation Canines works with dogs that sniff orca poop from a nautical mile away and mutts that find caterpillars by seeking out their tiny droppings.
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US naval officials believe China has plans to start reclamation and construction activities on Scarborough Shoal, which sits further north of the Spratlys within the Philippines claimed 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone.
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Next week the International Seabed Authority, which looks after those parts of the ocean floor beyond coastal countries' 200 nautical-mile exclusive economic zones, is issuing guidelines for the exploitation of submarine minerals.
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A rock owned by a state will also generate a 12 nautical mile territorial border but not an economic zone under UNCLOS, while a low-tide elevation grants no territorial benefits at all.
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The finding that Itu Aba is a rock means that Taiwan is entitled to a territorial sea extending for 12 nautical miles around it but not a 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone.
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North Sentinel, 50 km (31 miles) west of Port Blair - the capital of the island cluster - is protected by laws which bar even fishing within a 5-nautical mile radius of the island.
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Almost directly located under the near-8,500 nautical mile route, California is the ideal stopover point for the route that allows aircraft to refuel and restock before continuing the journey over the Pacific.
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Both will race in Australia's maritime rite of passage, the Rolex Sydney Hobart Race, a 22000-nautical-mile sprint from Sydney Harbor to Hobart, on the island of Tasmania, which begins on Tuesday.
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It is a 628-nautical-mile sprint south that can turn nasty, even deadly, with the unpredictable weather patterns generated by the relatively shallow Bass Strait that separates Tasmania from the Australian mainland.
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The A321XLR jets, to be delivered from mid-2024, have a 4,3203 nautical mile range that will allow Qantas or its low-cost arm Jetstar to perform longer-range flights in narrowbody jets.
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The Federal Aviation Administration also increased the Temporary Flight Restriction around the volcano from 20,000 to 30,000 feet above ground level, and extended it out to a 5-nautical-mile radius around the summit.
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While Duterte has been sanguine about ties with China, Lorenzana is more wary and has noted that Beijing's fortification of manmade islands inside the Philippines' 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone has not abated.
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Nizar Ayyash, chairman of the Gaza fishermen's union, called the expansion insufficient, noting that Israel's interim Oslo peace deals with the Palestinians call for a 20 nautical mile (37 km)zone in the Mediterranean.
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Another agency official, Deden Ridwansyah, said authorities were focusing on an area about 1 nautical mile in radius based on debris found on the water and floodlights would be used to search through the night.
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With the aircraft now on the New York route, flight times have lowered and held steady at around 14 hours for the near 7,000 nautical mile route, according to data from flight-tracking website FlightRadar24.
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The response was muted from the Philippines, a traditional U.S. ally that last year won an international arbitration case that included a challenge to China's island-building within its 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone.
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Though located within the Philippines' 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone, an international tribunal in 2016 ruled that the Scarborough Shoal is a traditional fishing ground that no one country has sole rights to exploit.
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In October, the United States carried out a freedom of navigation operation in the South China Sea, sailing within waters claimed by China, but not within the 12-nautical-mile territorial limits of the islands.
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The U.S. manufacturer hopes to sell the multi-role aircraft, which is 38 feet long (11.6 meters) and has a 2,000 nautical mile (13,704 kilometer) range, to customers around the world, modifying it as requested.
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The U.S. manufacturer hopes to sell the multi-role aircraft, which is 38 feet long (11.6 meters) and has a 20303,000 nautical mile (3,704 kilometer) range, to customers around the world, modifying it as requested.
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The U.S. manufacturer hopes to sell the multi-role aircraft, which is 38 feet long (11.6 metres) and has a 2,000 nautical mile (3,704 kilometre) range, to customers around the world, modifying it as requested.
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But if Itu Aba is determined to be an island, it is entitled to a 200 nautical mile (370 km) exclusive economic zone under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
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Passengers request to get dropped off after the hour-plus Great South Bay tour at restaurants and bars like Rachel's Waterside Grill,Tropix, Hudson's and Bracco's along the Nautical Mile, a popular Long Island hangout.
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Seven sculptures, including an oversized pineapple and human skull, comprise the new Underwater Museum of Art, in 50 to 60 feet of water one nautical mile off the panhandle of Florida in coastal South Walton.
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The Frenchman, who set off from Japan on June 5, is expected on Wednesday to reach the 1,000 nautical mile (1,13km) mark - about a fifth of the way across the world's largest expanse of water.
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U.S. naval officials believe China has plans to start reclamation and construction activities on Scarborough Shoal, which sits further north of the Spratlys within the Philippines-claimed 200-nautical-mile (370-km) exclusive economic zone.
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After opening an 800-nautical-mile lead over Thomson near the feared Cape Horn, Le Cleac'h saw the Welshman reduce the gap to less than 103 miles before restoring a bigger advantage in the closing stages.
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In late October, one day after Mr. Joko's new cabinet was installed, Mr. Dedi's boat was well within the 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone in which only Indonesians are permitted by international law to fish.
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In 2016, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague ruled that portions of the contested areas were part of the Philippines' 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone, and Manila had sovereign rights to resources there.
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The British Navy has previously sailed close to the disputed Spratly Islands, further south in the South China Sea, several times in recent years but not within the 12 nautical mile limit, regional diplomatic sources have said.
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Despite his inflammatory comments, Duterte has said the Philippines will maintain security agreements with Washington, and Philippines Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay said Duterte had only ruled out joint patrols beyond the Philippines' 12-nautical mile territorial waters.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Friday dismissed concerns expressed by the Philippine defense minister over what he believed to be survey missions by its ships deep into the southeast Asian nation's 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
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The United States has already conducted what it calls "freedom of navigation" patrols in the area, sailing within 12-nautical mile territorial limits around disputed islands controlled by China to underscore its right to navigate the seas.
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The tribunal's 2016 ruling, which China refuses to recognize, included clarifying that the Reed Bank was within the 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone of the Philippines and therefore it had sovereign rights to exploit resources there.
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The tribunal's declaration that it is a rock, not an island, means that Taiwan is entitled to a territorial sea extending for 12 nautical miles around Itu Aba, but not a 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone.
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Manila argued in closed court hearings that none of the islands, shoals and reefs in the Spratlys are large enough to grant an additional 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ) for fishing and extracting seabed resources.
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With a 15-20% boost in fuel efficiency over the previous generation of A321 jets — known as the A321ceo, or "current engine option" — the A321neo — "new engine option" — also boasts a 500 nautical mile increase in range.
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The Scarborough Shoal is located within the Philippines' 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone but an international tribunal in 2016 ruled that it is a traditional fishing ground that no one country has sole rights to exploit.
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For example, he said, the fishing industry had asked for wider spacing between turbines than the 0.75 nautical mile laid out in the proposal, and wanted the turbines aligned in an east-west orientation, rather than northwest-southeast.
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Earlier this month the Philippine defense minister said he believed China had conducted survey missions deep into the Southeast Asian nation's 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone in the Benham Rise, which sits off the Philippines' east coast.
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The stint put the airline on the public radar after a Silver flight operating on behalf of United landed at the wrong airport on an intra-West Virginia flight from Morgantown to Clarksburg, a 25-nautical mile sector.
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The efficiency offered by the aircraft quickly allowed it to dominate the list of world's longest flights and create new ones, including San Francisco-Singapore operated by a United Airlines Boeing 787-9, a 7,339-nautical mile route…
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And it lambasted China for violating the rights of the Philippines, whose 200-nautical-mile (370-km) exclusive economic zone covers some of the rocks in question, and whose vessels China had prevented from fishing and prospecting for oil.
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"Using a massive electrical pulse rather than a chemical propellant, the railgun can launch projectiles much farther than the 13-nautical-mile range of the US Navy's standard 5-inch naval gun," the US Office of Naval Research says.
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The offshore block where the drilling was occurring straddles the border of Vietnam's 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone but is challenged by China, Vietnam's hulking northern neighbor, which is building artificial islands in the sea for its military.
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Clark called for the effort to start with the Navy fully committing to the MQ-25 Stingray autonomous refueling drone, which when operational will be able to drag the current air wing out to the 1,000-nautical-mile range.
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The expedition would be a new way of challenging the blockade but also raises the possibility of more confrontation and violence as Israel bars any boats from Gaza reaching farther out than a six-nautical-mile radius into the Mediterranean Sea.
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Vietnam is in the midst of a quiet military buildup analysts say is designed as a deterrent, to secure its 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone as China grows more assertive in staking its claims in the South China Sea.
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"On July 2 the vessels were leaving the Hakuryu-5 when the 35111 maneuvered between them at high speed, passing within 100 meters of each ship and less than half a nautical mile from the rig," CSIS said in its report.
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ABOARD USS BOXER, Arabian Sea (Reuters) - At a thumbs-up sign from a sailor, a U.S. Harrier fighter jet takes off from the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer in the Arabian Sea as an oil tanker passes, a nautical mile away.
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"On July 2 the vessels were leaving the Hakuryu-5 when the 35111 manoeuvred between them at high speed, passing within 100 metres of each ship and less than half a nautical mile from the rig," CSIS said in its report.
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MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippine defense minister on Thursday said he was "disturbed" by what he believes are survey missions by Chinese ships deep into its 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and in an area designated as its continental shelf.
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The aircraft soon started to displace the Boeing 787 Dreamliner on the list of longest flights in the world, with the longest routes for the A350 including Singapore and San Francisco operated by Singapore Airlines, an approximately 7,350-nautical mile route...
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After six nights at sea and with rations low, Tasmanian 30-foot yacht Take Five crossed the finish line Wednesday in 5 days, 23 hours, 41 minutes for the 628-nautical-mile course in the 75th edition of the race.
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Still, condensate is highly volatile when exposed to air and water and concerns were growing the tanker could explode and sink while a flotilla of 13 search and rescue vessels comb a 900-square-nautical-mile (3,100 sq km) area for the crew.
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Wild Oats smashed the race record when it crossed the line at Constitution Dock in Hobart at 313 pm (1048 GMT) on Wednesday after taking one day, eight hours, 48 minutes and 50 seconds to complete the 630-nautical mile (1,170 km) race.
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South Korea said its fighter jets fired hundreds of warning shots at the Russian A-50 radar and intelligence plane after officials in Seoul say it twice entered the 12-nautical-mile limit that South Korea considers its airspace around the islands.
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ROME (Reuters) - Saved from death at sea but denied a place to land by Italy, the 629 migrants rescued by the charity ship Aquarius have endured an additional 700 nautical mile-trip to Spain that one of the rescuers blamed on "idiotic" politics.
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ABOARD USS BOXER, Arabian Sea, July 18 (Reuters) - At a thumbs-up sign from a sailor, a U.S. Harrier fighter jet takes off from the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer in the Arabian Sea as an oil tanker passes, a nautical mile away.
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An eerie layer of haze that cut visibility in Sydney Harbor to 0.1 nautical mile forced the cancellation of the Big Boat Challenge, a practice race, and left organizers fretting about what to do about the main race if the smoke persisted.
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Skippered by race veteran Charles Caudrelier, Dongfeng had not previously won a leg, as they battled mountainous seas in the Southern Ocean and drifted through the Doldrums in the 45,000 nautical mile race, but had been the most consistent crew among the seven competitors.
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As Professor Emeritus Carl Thayer, a Vietnam specialist from the University of New South Wales, explains, the waters around Vanguard Bank lie within the Vietnamese "exclusive economic zone" (EEZ), a 85033-nautical-mile offshore belt of water space apportioned to coastal states by UNCLOS.
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The leader argued that if Taiping officially won the designation of being an island, Taiwan could theoretically argue for fishing rights as well as permission to explore for minerals in the seabed in a huge 200 nautical mile [230 mile, 370 km] economic exclusion zone surrounding it.
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Dozens of rescue boats from China and South Korea have been battling strong winds, high waves and poisonous fumes to comb a 2000-square-nautical-mile (2100,262-square-kilometre) area for 31 missing sailors and tame the fire, amid growing concerns the listing ship may explode or sink.
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Ian Storey of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore notes that China is urging neighbouring governments to agree on a Code of Conduct for the South China Sea that would ban military exercises within the 200-nautical-mile (370km) Exclusive Economic Zone of any coastal state without that state's permission.
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This week, Reuters reported that British oil giant BP was using its global shipping and trading network to embark upon an ambitious four-month pilot project of sorts: charting a 16,000-nautical-mile sea route involving seven tankers and a number of transfers to profitably get crude oil from Texas to Asia.
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And the dangers of the 45,000 nautical mile (83,000km) Volvo Ocean race were brought home to Grael and her fellow AkzoNobel crew members by the loss of British sailor John Fisher, who was swept overboard from Team Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag in March on leg seven of the race from Auckland to Itajai in Brazil.
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Judging from the official and news sources Felgenhauer catalogs, Moscow appears poised to enact laws and regulations that go far, far beyond what the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea — the closest thing the world has to a constitution governing the world's oceans and seas — permits in a coastal state's "territorial sea" the 12-nautical-mile belt of water that lies just offshore.
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