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What is UNCLOS or United Nations Convention for the Law of the Sea ?

Contiguous zone :

The sea beyond the territorial waters but within a distance of twenty-four nautical miles (~44 km) from the baselines (Within its contiguous zone and the airspace above it, the country shall have the right to exercise all the powers which may be considered necessary to prevent contravention of any fiscal law or any customs, emigration, immigration or sanitary law and to make such contravention punishable.)

Maritime cultural zone :

 The sea beyond the territorial waters but within a distance of twenty-four nautical miles (~44 km) from the baselines (Subject to any other law the country shall have, in respect of objects of an archaeological or historical nature found in the maritime cultural zone, the same rights and powers as it has in respect of its territorial waters.)

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Amit Sharma

Graduated from M.E.R.I. Mumbai (Mumbai University), After a brief sailing founded this website with the idea to bring the maritime education online which must be free and available for all at all times and to find basic solutions that are of extreme importance to a seafarer by our innovative ideas.

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