Legal Opinion
Indian River Recovery Co. v. China
District Court, D. Delaware
Decided December 3, 1985No. Civ. A. No. 85-315 CMWPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CALEB M. WRIGHT, Senior District Judge.
FACTS
In 1970, while conducting wire-dragging navigational obstruction surveys of the shipping lanes at the mouth of the Delaware Bay, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) vessels snagged an obstruction at 38°49'14" North latitude, 74°55'00" West longitude. This location is approximately eleven miles east of Cape Henlopen, Delaware and seven and one-half miles south of Cape May, New Jersey, in the federally-administered waters known as the contiguous zone.
The obstruction turned out to be the wreck of a heretofore undiscovered…
2Cases cited23 opinions
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3Cited by7 opinions
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