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...allowed to extend control of offshore waters to a depth of 650 ft. Seaward from that point, they might develop undersea oil or ore reserves, but only as "trustees" for a so-called seabed authority representing the international community, which would reap up to 50% of the profits from deep-sea exploitation...
...proposal the seabed authority was broken down to a body that merely licensed deep-sea mining...
...case of oil and natural gas, the problem would be settled relatively simply by the 200-mile economic zone. Virtually all of the accessible oil and gas reserves lie within this zone, leaving coastal states in control of their own offshore deposits. But how to deal with deep-sea minerals...
Most of the Butterfield campers come from the Los Angeles and San Diego areas; some, like the Robert Templetons and Dan Kivettes of nearby Yucaipa, arrive as two-family groups. While the husbands are off deep-sea fishing in the Pacific 25 miles away, the children can be riding on a bike trail and the wives taking a stroll in the woods. "We keep the camper stocked so we can take off on 30 minutes' notice," says Donna Templeton...
...closed-circuit TV, the researchers watched 50 scientists of the Interior Department's Tektite program as they made underwater observations of deep-sea phenomena off the coast of the Virgin Islands. The scientist-crews went down in a submersible habitat in groups of five and remained submerged fathoms deep for two or three weeks at a time...