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  • The Seabots are Coming Here: Should they be Treated as ‘Vessels’?

  • Craig H. Allen
  • Journal:
    The Journal of Navigation / Volume 65 / Issue 4 / October 2012
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    30 May 2012, pp. 749-752
    Print publication:
    October 2012
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  • Unmanned Marine Vehicles (UMVs), like their aerial cousins Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), are not easily classified under existing legal regimes. Even though unmanned, should these seagoing drones be treated as ‘vessels’ under the Law of the Sea Convention articles on navigation rights and duties? Are they ‘vessels’ under the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREGs, 1972)? If so, should they be accorded a manoeuvring priority vis-à-vis other vessels? Are the differences between autonomous UMVs and the increasingly automated manned vessels all that great, such that classification should turn on whether the vessel is manned rather than on how navigation and collision avoidance decisions are made and executed?