On Sun, 15 May 2005 11:52:57 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:

V139 goes from southern NJ to eastern Long Island, cutting off the corner
of the coastline at New York, heading out about 40 miles over the ocean. I
just happened to notice that it's got MOCA's defined in addition to the
MEA's. The segment between MANTA and PLUME, for example, has a MOCA of
2000. This is 25 miles from the nearest bit of terrain higher than a
wavetop. Anybody have any idea why there's a MOCA defined?

Tall ships or shipping lanes come to mind for me.

Allen