Sunday, October 28, 2007

Who owns the treasures of the sea?

Who owns the wealth that lies at the bottom of the sea? This week, the question arose in southern and northern oceans: in Antarctica, where Britain is planning to claim 386,000 square miles (1 million square kilometers) of seabed in the belief that they may contain exploitable oil, gas and minerals; and in the Bay of Gibraltar, where the Spanish navy forced a US salvage vessel into port at Algeciras....

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