If you sneak onto a boat and loot the place is that burglary or piracy?

Just curious because they just caught two people who did that in the next town over.

@001zlnv Well, according to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, §101, the definition of piracy explicitly only includes acts committed upon the "high seas," which per the Convention on the High Seas only refers to non-territorial oceanic waters.

I mean, you asked. O:)

@zebratron2084 so burglary then.

Does this mean you can loot any submerged submarine you want and be technically innocent of piracy?

It isn't on the high seas

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