Limites das águas jurisidicionais brasileiras: soberania além do horizonte

Abstract

The enjoyment of oceans and seas by the most diverse civilizations over thousands of years reflected in the need to properly delimit them so that each State could assume its rights and duties in relation to its portion of area. In this sense, the promotion of meetings involving international organizations and governments made the demarcation of the lands possible, in order to specify their responsibilities. As far as Brazil is concerned, its maritime concept is the Brazilian Jurisdictional Waters, so classified by the Brazilian Navy. Its nomenclature addresses other practical and theoretical definitions, such as continental shelf, territorial sea, inland waters, etc., where each space has its particular function and legal rules. Therefore, the scientific article in question has the intention of analyzing the case of collision between the vessels Oceano Pesca I and Chang Rong 4 in international waters through the application of the mentioned concepts, verifying how the legal measures could, should or would be employed. Regarding the methods applied to the execution of the present work, these were developed through the use of exploratory research aligned with bibliographical research, since it was through the use of documents, journalistic news, academic papers, legislation, jurisprudence and other resources, that it was possible to describe and delimit the proposed theme.