1.   A court applying the location test must determine whether the tort occurred on navigable water or whether injury suffered on land was caused by a vessel on navigable water.

2.   However, says Larsen, a safely operated moving vessel in navigable waters is directly answerable to no one.

3.   II The LHWCA provides for compensation of workers injured or killed while employed on the navigable waters or adjoining, shipping-related land areas of the United States.

4.   Outdoors-loving Stockholmers appreciate that their city offers so much navigable water, as well as a wealth of parkland and open space.

5.   The traditional test for admiralty tort jurisdiction asked only whether the tort occurred on navigable waters.

6.   There is a considerable body of law, ancient and modern, that gives the public a clear right to use and enjoy navigable waters.

7.   Thus, what was once a simple question did the tort occur on the navigable waters had become a complicated, multifactor analysis.

8.   Thus, if Great Lakes committed a tort, it must have done it while on navigable waters.

9.   The town argued that the public trust doctrine only applies to navigable waters, not to beaches.