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• Using submarine cables for climate monitoring and disaster warning Opportunities and legal challenges
  • Table of contents
  • 1 Introduction and executive summary
  • 2 Jurisdiction and the law of the sea
    • 2.1 Territorial sea
    • 2.2 Right of innocent passage
    • 2.3 Contiguous zone
    • 2.4 Exclusive economic zone (“EEZ”)
    • 2.5 Continental shelf
    • 2.6 High seas
    • 2.7 The area
  • 3 International legal regime for installation and maintenance of submarine cables
  • 4 International legal regime for marine data collection
    • 4.1 Marine scientific research
    • 4.2 Surveys
    • 4.3 Exploration and exploitation of marine resources
    • 4.4 Operational oceanography
  • 5 Preliminary assessment of legal-regulatory considerations
    • 5.1 The LOS convention and customary international law do not classify dual purpose telecom-marine data cables definitively as MSR
    • 5.2 Dual purpose telecom-marine data cables are likely to be permitted with few restrictions by some coastal states while treated as MSR by other coastal states
    • 5.3 The potential for erosion of submarine cable rights and freedom
    • 5.4 A way forward
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography