Abstract
The high seas have always engendered a range of emotions and reactions from humans. Curiosity, fear, even terror, of this great expanse of ocean which cover 70 % of Earth – the blue planet. Yet the sheer size of the oceans and the difficulty of transporting across them meant the ‘high seas’ were largely ignored by the vast majority of humans for centuries. Humans were largely confined to land with the only interest in the seas being as trade routes and the defence of the land. In fact all the way up to the last quarter of the twentieth century a nation’s territorial sea extended only three nautical miles off shore – the distance that a cannon ball could be fired.
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Wescott, G. (2015). Ocean Governance and Risk Management. In: Fra.Paleo, U. (eds) Risk Governance. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9328-5_21
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