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HowieT3

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What's to stop the pirates? The Coast Guard and the Navy.


First of all, it is the duty of every mariner under the International Law of the Sea Convention to fight piracy on the high seas. Any US Coast Guard cutter (which is considered a law enforcement vessel) has jurisdiction out to 200 miles from the coasts in the US Exclusive Economic Zone and any country's man-of-war can stop ships declared to be pirates outside our 12-mile limit. A US=flagged ship basically is dead meat. Piracy at sea still carries a life sentence in the US.

In the 80s, we had US Navy ships and Coast Guard cutters operating off Central America to stop drugs. If a suspected druggie was spotted the State Department would contact the government of the ship's flag country and ask permission to stop it.
There were 3 possible replies:
1. Yes, you can stop and board it.
2. No, you can't stop and board it.
and 3. Not our ship. If that happened, the ship was now an international pirate and could be stopped by any country's ship under the International Law of The Sea Convention.

(In response to this post by Seattle .Hoo)

Posted: 07/14/2022 at 2:05PM



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