“Personally, the financial and political empowerment of foreign tyrants and unelected, unaccountable global UN bureaucrats disturbs me more than the loss of revenue to the United States, as bad as that is.”
This is an aspect I didn’t consider but once you pointed it out I can see this is more dangerous.
One the sections Reagan fixed.
Keep in mind, much in the treaty already is practice.
Some does not apply to the USA as we are not land locked.
PART VI
CONTINENTAL SHELF
Article 76
Definition of the continental shelf
1. The continental shelf of a coastal State comprises the seabed and
subsoil of the submarine areas that extend beyond its territorial sea
throughout the natural prolongation of its land territory to the outer edge of
the continental margin, or to a distance of 200 nautical miles from the
baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured where the
outer edge of the continental margin does not extend up to that distance.
2. The continental shelf of a coastal State shall not extend beyond the
limits provided for in paragraphs 4 to 6.
3. The continental margin comprises the submerged prolongation of the
land mass of the coastal State, and consists of the seabed and subsoil of the
shelf, the slope and the rise. It does not include the deep ocean floor with its
oceanic ridges or the subsoil thereof.