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A Claim to Pacific Ocean Seafloor makes Maritime Hitory! The claim to over 6 million square miles of deep sea bed in the East Pacific Ocean area was developed and first established in 1975 by Mr. Robert Schott, owner and founder of International SeaLand Enterprises, (ISLE), formerly of Beverly Hills, California. Mr. Schott has spent more than 20 years researching, developing and compiling exact and pertinent data on this most sophisticated project. Since the resources of the ocean are said to be the 'Common Heritage of Mankind', and being of mankind himself; Mr. Schott foresaw the coming exploitation of this last frontier, as he was unwilling to wait and see this last remaining abundance of resources taken over by any government or huge multinational companies to the exclusion of the people, while they extract these valuable resources and sell back to the people what they should be able to share in to begin with.
ISLE's claim has been mapped and divided into sections and fully described by
legal dimensions. It was first established in September of 1975 and periodically
reaffirmed and updated thereafter by giving notice to such entities as the
Secretary of State, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, the
President of the United Nations, all major oil companies and major countries of
the world. Additionally, and unbeknownst to Mr. Schott, Deep-Sea Ventures of Virginia, a large corporation, and at about the same
time, deemed it important enough to establish a similar claim of some 10,000
square miles within the same area. Although smaller in size than ISLE'S
property, Deep-Sea Ventures claim is solely an internal corporate benefiting
one, as it is being used for their own mining purposes and not being made
available for sale or lease. Although acknowledged
and honored by ISLE, when comparing the two existing claims, it is apparent that
Mr. Schott has been far more thorough and persistent in his endeavor. A most
important point however is that both claims were established prior to the
passage of any pertinent laws of the U.S. or the U.N. now being pressed into
force. It is because of the constant persistence of Mr. Schott and the existence
of these new and ever present laws now coming into effect, that now no one else,
be it a person, corporation, or any other entity, can establish even a semblance
of a valid claim of this sort anywhere on the ocean seabed in this last
frontier.
ISLE and Mr. Schott's claim to this area of the deep sea-bed has been thoroughly and competently researched by one of the most respected attorneys in the nation. Mr. Oscar B. Ladner of Gulfport, Mississippi; now retired, Mr. Ladner's record was that of a trial attorney of great accomplishment and distinction in the field of law, as attested to by his listing in 'Who's Who in American Law'. In 1975, Mr. Schott created 'By-Laws' which he felt were necessary to the
working nature of his project. Almost every point in his By-Laws, conceived,
composed, and structured for ISLE directed at establishing some form of
safeguard protection of the seabed environment and for the benefit of mankind as a whole,
were copied years later by the U.S. and U.N. and incorporated into their
proposed bills. Points 2, 3, 6 and 8 of Mr. Schott's ISLE By-Laws, which were
somewhat revised to benefit The
'Authorities' needs, can be found in Public Law Act 96-283 of the U.S.A. dated June 28, 1980, 5 years after Mr. Schott's claim. Point I,
along with several other of ISLEs' By-Laws can be found in the 'Report of the
Delegation to the Xlth Session of the U.N.s' Conference on the 'Law of the Sea',
dated March 8-April 30, 1982 - (7 years after Mr. Schott's claim)
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