These forces include civilian-use marine transport resources (the merchant marine), near- and far-seas fishing fleets, scientific survey vessels, and marine-resource exploration and development assets, among others; military forces
at sea (of which the navy is central, but that also include maritime militia reserve fleets); and maritime law-enforcement forces, which include the Maritime Safety Administration (MSA), the Coast Guard of the Border Control Department, the China Marine Surveillance (CMS), Fisheries Law Enforcement (FLEC), and Maritime Customs, among others.
According to Posner and Sykes, resources
at sea are outside the land territory (3) of any individual nation (nations and their citizens may assert competing claims to the common pool resources of the sea): international externalities are a commonplace with activities
at sea, states have a weaker interest in regulating behavior in the contiguous zone than in the territorial seas, whereas states cannot agree on all rules for the exploitation of seabed minerals because of conflicting interests.
Although I am
at sea for 30 days, the time flies by.
THE CORRESPONDENT IN "The Open Boat," a short story published by Stephen Crane in 1898, poses the following question as he and three companions are adrift
at sea after a shipwreck: "If I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and trees?" A similar question could have been asked by Odysseus in the Odyssey as he traversed the seas for ten years, though it would have elicited a quite different response.
Sea basing, putting in place mobile seagoing logistics platforms, promises to make the oceans a permanent base for conducting military operations by placing
at sea an unprecedented amount of firepower, maneuver forces, command-and-control systems, and logistics capabilities that are needed to project and sustain military operations.
Days
at sea would meld pleasantly into each other, a rare feeling indeed.
The five-man crew used stone tools to repair the damage
at sea.
The Garden Pavilion is the fourth-floor dining room
at Sea View Hospital Rehabilitation Center and Home in Staten Island, N.Y.
