And Simon Murie, founder of niche tour operator Swimtrek, says the Strait of Hormuz (Oman-Iran), Gulf of Aqaba (Egypt-Saudi Arabia) and La Perouse Strait (Hokkaido, Japan - Sakhalin, Russia) are all waiting to be swum.
Plus I think people might be watching this war of words over the Strait of Hormuz.
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At its narrowest point, the Strait of Hormuz is only 21 nautical miles (40km) wide.
He said Bush was trying to foment tensions in the Persian Gulf over the Strait of Hormuz confrontation.
In 2012, Raddatz was on a USS destroyer as it made its way through the Strait of Hormuz.
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Iran has previously threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, a vital oil shipping lane, over the sanctions issue.
But in reaction to those sanctions, you have one politician in Iran renewing the threat to close the Strait of Hormuz.
Oil companies, in particular, ought to be be paying for the cost of the Fifth Fleet, which protects the Strait of Hormuz.
Or is it farsighted planning to provide resources in exactly the kind of a temporary Strait of Hormuz emergency that now seems entirely possible.
But threats to close the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly a quarter of the world's oil supplies passes, send shivers through oil markets.
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Tehran threatened this year to close the Strait of Hormuz, a vital oil shipping lane, if sanctions were imposed on its exports of crude oil.
In recent days, Iran has threatened to block the Strait of Hormuz, the channel through which about a third of global seaborne oil exports pass.
American sovereignty, an unfettered Navy, and where applicable, customary international law, remain our best tools for ensuring stability in critical ocean pathways like the Strait of Hormuz.
If the Iranians were to carry out their threat to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, China would suffer directly, through a likely surge in the oil price.
"Bad news would be a supply shock - if you did have a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz or a war in the Middle East, " Koll said.
U.S. stock futures are broadly lower heading into the open, as Wall Street frets over European dealings for a Greek bond-swap deal while Iran reiterated its threat to block the Strait of Hormuz.
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This seems to be a reaction to Iran's threats to retaliate against any attack by closing the Strait of Hormuz, the passage for roughly 40% of the world's traded oil, and striking at neighbouring countries.
The sanctions announced Monday are likely to escalate tensions with Iran, which recently threatened to block off the Strait of Hormuz, a valuable waterway near the Persian Gulf that carries about 20% of the world's oil shipments.
As is the case with the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, our presence there is part of a rotation that has not changed at all and ensures that we maintain a significant presence in the Gulf.
Furthermore, the general ratcheting up of diplomatic tensions between the West and Iran over the republic's nuclear ambitions raises fears of a potential closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the world's most important shipping channel for oil deliveries.
Tehran warned it could shut the Strait of Hormuz and yesterday threatened to take action if the US navy moves an aircraft carrier, which left the Gulf on December 27 on a planned routine transit through the Strait, back into the Gulf.
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But he also has said that the United States would be able to take steps if Tehran were to attempt to block the Strait of Hormuz, the outlet of the Persian Gulf and a choke point for much of the world's oil.
Fears of a disruption now emanate from Iran's threats to close the Strait of Hormuz, the route for a fifth of the world's oil, in response to a European Union embargo on Tehran's oil as way to pressure it to give up its controversial nuclear program.
If, for the sake of argument, there was reason to believe Iran would take seriously any global consensus on passage through the Strait of Hormuz that would supposedly emerge from American ratification of LOST, the U.S. would still be paying far too high a price simply to codify what we already maintain is our right under customary international law.
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