White Paper | Use Of A Submarine In
Ice-Covered Arctic Waters To Help Delimit
The U.S. Extended Continental Shelf
In 2007, USARC recommended a feasibility study of using U.S. nuclear submarines to collect geophysical data (bathymetric and seismic) in the ice-covered Arctic Ocean to help the national effort to delimit the U.S. extended continental shelf as defined in the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea.