Can you claim the bottom of the ocean as a new country?

Question

Can you claim the bottom of the ocean as a new country?

Answer 1

NO..PROHIBITED BY TREATY. tAGGER

Answer 2

Sure.

Go ahead. There are people who are selling acreage on the moon. Maybe you can make a buck.

Answer 3

You can't claim it AS a country, but countries can claim it as there own. I do believe International law states 200miles off the coast is owned by a country automatically. If you want to go further you have to provide proof/claim to an International court. The North Pole area is in great dispute right now. Russia actually planted a flag at the bottom of the ocean up there. Odd stuff.

Answer 4

Yes, of course you can.  You can claim that you are king of the world.  Getting people to agree with you -- that's the hard part.

Answer 5

i seriously doubt it cuz no one has done it yet

Answer 6

Well, considering that there are no people living on the bottom of the ocean, and one of the things constituting a country are the presence of people governed by a ruling body, I would say no.

But, if somehow you were able to move people along with the equipment to make them survive, I guess you could. But, keep it mind that it would be very cost-effective to create human habitats where the pressure is so high that it would instantly crush a human being.

I would say there are probably no laws forbidding it right now, but as soon as someone does do it, there will be a move to legalize it for money's sake. And we could always use more space to have human beings live on.

Answer 7

I would! It's big! LoL