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Science 5 January 1996:
Vol. 271. no. 5245, pp. 23 - 24
DOI: 10.1126/science.271.5245.23
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News & Comment

Jeffrey Mervis

Indonesia has blocked recent requests from foreign research vessels to enter its 200-nautical-mile Exclusive Economic Zone to take water samples for the World Ocean Circulation Experiment, a 30-nation collaboration on an international ocean circulation experiment. The refusals leave a gap in oceanographers' understanding of water flow between the Indian and Pacific oceans. And they illustrate a worldwide problem for oceanographers trying to study near-shore waters: Despite having international law on their side, they are seen as posing a threat to the host country.




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