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Sentence Examples Offshore orcas are seldom in protected inshore waters, spending most of their time in the open ocean on the continental shelf. That's the concept behind Offshore, a tidy little coffee palace with a neat sideline in furniture sales. Offshore oil rigs and platforms, refineries along the Gulf Coast all closed tonight ahead of the hurricane. Offshore onomasts and eponymists might favour something like Aimless Aussie if it came from our shores. Offshore oil and gold are exploited, and there are deposits of iron ore, copper, manganese, uranium, silica, and titanium. Offshore trusts are not illegal, but individuals must declare income earned from the trust to the Irish tax authorities. Offshore software application developers use agile methodology to bring flexibility to their development process. This Offshore Overlap Agreement is another important step in Crees and Inuit co-operation and sharing. Offshore finance centres have been subjected to increased criticism over recent years. Offshore drilling, they argued, would damage coral reefs and mangrove swamps and threaten endangered sea life. Offshore and the lads got onto the close reefs for some squire, snapper and trag jew. The rig is on contract from Diamond Offshore Drilling in the United Kingdom. The Plaintiffs in the action had entered into a towage contract with Lambert Eggink Offshore Transport Consultants. Offshore bank and building society savings accounts, interest-paying current accounts and bond funds are the primary targets under the new scheme. Offshore the edible crab and edible oyster are also found, the latter especially in the Sound of Scalpay. Offshore banking, manufacturing, and tourism form key sectors of the economy. Offshore wind power is not a form of marine energy, as wind power is derived from the wind, even if the wind turbines are placed over water. According to the European Commission, the North Sea Offshore Grid should become one of the building blocks of a future European super grid. Development of Omans Offshore Block 18 in the North Sohar Basin between the Batinah coast and the Makran Accretionary Prism. On 1 August 2013 Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg opened the Lincs Offshore Wind Farm. Show More Sentences The machines are designed for Offshore wind power in Brittany, the UK, and Normandy. The lifeboat, operated by the Southport Offshore Rescue Trust, is completely independent from the RNLI and receives no money from them. Offshore wind power refers to the construction of wind farms in large bodies of water to generate electric power. Offshore wind farms form one of the highest concentrations of turbines in the world. Offshore capacity increased by 832 MW in 2016, of which 636 MW were made in China. Offshore exploration and extraction of oil disturbs the surrounding marine environment. Offshore areas are used by such birds as dovekies, murres, shearwaters, sea ducks such as the common eider, and alcids. Offshore wind resource characteristics span a range of spatial and temporal scales and field data on external conditions. Offshore oil and gas from North Sea and Irish Sea, and more recently offshore wind, are significant components in Northern England's energy mix. Offshore schools of ballyhoo and flyingfish are part of this migration as well. Offshore wind, common in the fjord areas during winter, sets up a current on the surface from the inner to the outer parts. Offshore oil and gas is likely to become an increasing important part of the South Island economy into the future. It can also be seen from the top end of the Wirral peninsula, between the turbines of the new Burbo Bank Offshore Wind Farm. Offshore of Cape Mendocino lies the Mendocino Triple Junction, a geologic triple junction where three tectonic plates come together. Offshore wind power refers to the construction of wind farms in bodies of water to generate electricity from wind. The work caused problems for local fishermen who asked the Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Farm for a disruption payment. Offshore there are harbour porpoises, basking sharks and various species of dolphin. Offshore turbines require different types of bases for stability, according to the depth of water. There is also a memorial inside the Lifeboat house, now operated by the Southport Offshore Rescue Trust. The former Airport social club building has been renovated by Bond Offshore helicopters and this will be for future passenger use. Show More Sentences Offshore oil and gas has exponentially increasing cost as water depth increases. Offshore finance and information services have become important foreign exchange earners, and there is a healthy light manufacturing sector. Offshore wind turbines are less obtrusive than turbines on land, as their apparent size and noise is mitigated by distance. Offshore wind is steadier and stronger than on land, and offshore farms have less visual impact, but construction and maintenance costs are considerably higher. Offshore specialist The Engineering Business has been chosen by Swiss group Allseas to design and supply a new pipeline handling system for a pipelaying vessel. Other smaller amphibious craft such as the Offshore Raiding Craft, Rigid Raider and Inflatable Raiding Craft are in service in much greater numbers. Iranian Offshore Oil Company's Managing Director Mahmoud Zirakchianzadeh made the remarks at the inauguration ceremony of the development plan of Hengam oil field. Siri is one of the six zones covered by Iranian Offshore Oil Company in Persian Gulf and comprises Alvand, Sivand, Esfand, Nosrat, Dena and Mobarak oil fields. The Seatrade Offshore Marine and Workboats Middle East 2015 is one of the region's leading events for the workboat and offshore marine industries. The political declaration of the North Seas Countries Offshore Grid Initiative was signed on 7 December 2009 at the European Union Energy Council. Offshore salvage may provide only a short window of opportunity for the salvage team due to unusually high tide or inclement weather for instance. When Don Hammond started the Dolphinfish Research Program, he came to the Central Florida Offshore Anglers club in Orlando, where I was a member, and I got a 5-tag kit. Something that started back in 1952 when he was a sea scout in Barry, Wales, turned into a passion for the affable 73-year-old member of the Dubai Offshore Sailing Club. Subsea connector expert, First Subsea, has won a deal to provide a cable connector for Phase III of the Fukushima Floating Offshore Wind Farm Demonstration, offshore Japan. Offshore wind power or offshore wind energy is the use of wind farms constructed offshore, usually on the continental shelf, to harvest wind energy to generate electricity. If only the first Arctic Offshore Patrol Ship had been launched in 2013, when it was supposed to, Canadians wouldn't have had so much time to scrutinize the plan. Offshore from Blyth is the Trink, a ridge of limestone ridge covered by gravel, cobbles and boulders and which supports rare species such as the sea spider. Bureau Veritas has announced the appointment of Paillette Palaiologou as its new Marine Marketing and Sales Director within the Marine and Offshore Operating Group. Williams, a self-made millionaire, has interests in the offshore oil industry, telecommunications and tourism. We head offshore, speeding across deeper water, but another skiff off our starboard bow seems to have the same idea. Show More Sentences They are the furthest islands offshore and generally offer blue-water diving. He then began to illegally siphon his money from US bank accounts to offshore tax havens through a series of ingenious shell companies. On various episodes we've seen people living in caves, up in trees, on old offshore drilling platforms, and in abandoned missile silos. The world's largest offshore oil platform is still on an unsteady angle in the Gulf of Mexico. They yesterday evacuated 485 non-essential staff from their 14 offshore platforms and two drilling rigs. It was a large first step before offshore drilling from floating platforms was even envisioned. Sources said the helicopter was transporting workers from an offshore platform at Pt Galeota to Piarco. They have lifted a long-standing moratorium on offshore oil and gas exploration as part of their commitment to doubling petroleum production. But practical experience fosters pragmatism and adaptation and there are many agile teams working with offshore and nearshore suppliers. Water was waist-high in one spot a half mile inland on Grand Cayman, the largest of the islands and an important offshore finance centre. These rotations further suggest that forces acting on the nearshore edges of large floes behave differently from those acting on offshore edges. One area he identifies which requires more focus is quality assurance in offshore programs. It has been interpreted as having been deposited in an offshore, inner basinal to turbiditic basinal environment. The offshore area is situated within the most promising exploration theatre in New Zealand for large oil and gas accumulations. Bluespotted jawfish are usually found on the ocean bottom at depths of 18-24 m, near cliff bases or rocky outcroppings of offshore islands. Cruising and fishing are fine, but it's hard to waterski offshore, and there are limited areas to raft up. Industry supporters have claimed wave-power could become as significant as the offshore industry has been to Scotland. Provincial and federal bans on offshore oil and gas development are also expected to be lifted in the near future. The Nun Mine Member consists of thin-bedded calcareous mudstones locally with abundant radiolaria, and represents offshore, basinal environments. This area affords excellent views of Burrard Inlet and rafts of offshore ducks. Show More Sentences Generally fast-growing bivalved molluscs originated in near-shore environments, and later joined slower growing brachiopods offshore. Some species range mostly offshore, others are more often found in coastal waters. The extent to which industries are moving a wide array of mid-level professional jobs offshore is troubling. Namibia also possesses a rich offshore fishing industry and a karakul fur industry. Of course, every booming economy has not only its white-shoe financiers but also its lowly offshore workers. Flocks of terns and cormorants fished offshore, while fronds of kelp writhed in the surf like the flailing arms of sea monsters. I was windbound on the lengthy sweep of a beach at Lumsden for six days due to strong, gusting, offshore winds. Baywind also hopes to invest in one of the 30 turbines planned by Warwick Energy for an offshore wind farm near Barrow. Salazar said any offshore energy plan must include a push for more renewable energy, principally wind power. Of course, an unintended consequence of these jetties was that they created offshore shoals and sandbars that tended to magnify the waves here. Isleworth Ait lies offshore from Heron's place and is one of the longest covering 10 acres. In contrast, king eiders were found primarily in offshore waters more than 10 m deep west of Oliktok Point. The trench runs roughly parallel to the west coast of Sumatra about 125 miles offshore. Its bountiful supply of offshore oil should make it one of Africa's richest countries. They are probably the most pelagic of the alcids during their non-breeding season, with many birds wintering 60-120 miles offshore. The power station will be fuelled by natural gas from the offshore Kudu gas field. All have avoided paying tens of millions in taxes by reincorporating offshore while pocketing tens of millions in federal contracts. I asked to be transported to a sailing yacht, cruising just offshore of that beach. They can be found in oceans, estuaries, freshwater streams, lagoons, lakes, shallow offshore waters and coastlines. You still anchor offshore, but you do not tender in to the port on your ship's boats. Show More Sentences Her measure prevents offshore companies from bidding for government contracts. Bogus offshore banking sites can threaten to report you to your tax authority if you question their methods. He had three offshore companies registered in the Isle of Man for legitimate tax avoidance purposes prior to his bankruptcy. Larger vessels had to anchor offshore and have cargoes and passengers shipped via lighters to and from land. To meet the shortfall one alternative is to import liquefied natural gas from offshore. Dispose of interests in offshore roll-up funds if the proceeds will be taxed at a lower rate in the foreign jurisdiction than your home country. Looking to the stern I could see a big white water rooster tail created by the power of the outboard motors as they took us further offshore. A strike by Norwegian offshore oil rig workers entered its second month this week, with employers threatening a lockout. For local residents, the long wait for offshore petroleum development to arrive on their shores is over. This has the practical advantage that they can be sustained logistically from the amphibious group just offshore. Cost is still an important part of the equation, but technology can lower costs without any need to move offshore. Companies have to move faster and we should applaud those that let low-grade jobs go offshore. The offshore wind catches the sail on which the main sheet appears to be cleated, and the boat capsizes across the shore. Large areas, both offshore and onshore Namibia, still remain unexplored to determine the potential of gas and oil reserves. For centuries the efforts of man and nature have created a series of shifting offshore sandbanks and coastal dunes. They are also frequently found in floating sargassum weed, which suggests that they are common offshore. Why are so many bettors continuing to do business with local bookmakers, and eschewing offshore? If your boat is in the water and cannot be trailered, move it offshore to waters over 200 fathoms deep as soon as a Tsunami Warning is declared. It's not all making a pig of yourself, though, with five golden-beached islands just a few miles offshore. Tyco International's acquisition accounting and offshore tax avoidance practices are also under scrutiny. Show More Sentences Some people continued to leave cash in offshore havens such as Luxembourg and Gibraltar to keep their affairs secret from the taxman. The company provides container services, tanker and gas carriers, bulk and special services for offshore oil and gas companies. From telecommuting to centralized support services to offshore productivity centers, physical location's role is diminishing in relevance. The offshore waters are typically tempestuous, but winds in the channel's eastern bight will be only 10 to 15 knots. He worries, if the high-paying jobs move offshore, that could leave him and other workers permanently underemployed. The longest baffler reef in the Western Hemisphere runs offshore, letting you reach along inside with 15-to 20-knot wind on a flat sea. It was toppled from its commanding position by hungry capital-laden offshore firms who moved into its domain with no beg-pardons. Two of the Navy's trio of offshore patrol ships were on hand to rescue stricken mariners in two incidents on the same day. Black-clad masked gunmen scale large oil-storage tanks, while divers are positioned in a boat offshore. The large seaplanes landed in the quiet atoll waters and pulled up to a float offshore. Despite the fact that they were only a few hundred feet offshore, the pre-dawn fog had gradually thickened dramatically limiting visibility. The offshore stratigraphy contains several westward-prograding units of Cenozoic age that drape across the buried Mesozoic rift shoulder faults. Submarines ranged offshore to guard against unexpected seawards attacks, backing up patrolling destroyers and torpedo boats. Sites were protected from the largest ocean swells by either small offshore islands or large seaward rock benches. Similarly, the seaward boundary was defined as 10 km offshore, with exceptions based on specific circumstances. The second step is an order to transfer the money abroad to the account of an offshore company. I watched beautiful red-throated divers and the wintering barnacle geese transit the abandoned Isle of Innismurray, a few miles offshore. I get told by some of our other mates she has been seeing other guys while her husband is offshore. For instance, some offshore islands are nesting sites for birds, and seals also bask on some of the inner islands and mainland coves. Some people mistakenly call this an undertow, but there's no undercurrent, just an offshore current. Show More Sentences The Sound is protected from ice scour by a string of offshore islands. Oregon's lighthouses were all but inaccessible when they were built in the 19th century, near shoals and sandbars, treacherous offshore rocks and reefs. Aspects of the life history of this species are not well known because of taxonomic confusion with the offshore form Ammodytes dubius Reinhardt, northern sand lance. On Thursday, the relief effort intensified with the arrival of an American aircraft carrier group just offshore. Its purpose was to provide offshore patrol boats with a comparatively lightweight direct and high-angle fire weapon capable of engaging both watercraft and targets ashore. Churchill then decided to embark on a British cruiser, the Belfast, and watch the landings from offshore. Your village is small and remote, extremely difficult to reach because it is isolated from the world by the treacherous currents offshore and the high mountains landward. Typically, the postglacial biotic migrations were much greater than just the distances landward from synglacial positions of the strandline directly offshore. The direction of wave approach will also vary and, consequently, sediment movement in the coastal zone can be complex, moving onshore, offshore, and alongshore. The birds may be fatally attracted to lighthouses, offshore drilling platforms, and the high-intensity lamps used by fishermen to lure squid to the surface. None of the planned projects is offshore, however, although in Europe, where suitable land is scarce, more and more projects are putting out to sea. We provide cost-effective GSM deployment over satellite links to offshore stationary mobile platforms or seagoing vessels such as oil rigs, cruise ships and ferries. But Landrieu says the White House moratorium on deepwater offshore drilling is a huge mistake. The southern California bight region, Baja peninsula and waters offshore of central California are emerging as major regions of bluefin tuna residency. But there is still access to caves along the beach area once used by bootleggers during prohibition to smuggle in illegal booze from offshore boats. The US government said on Wednesday that it could take up to 90 days to restore production at offshore drilling platforms that were destroyed by Hurricane Ivan. Sometimes the money was sent offshore then wired back later. The predominant feature of the shoreline is the rocky cliffs, extending under water to encompass a lush kelp forest, submarine reefs and offshore seamounts. While the three of them were in Mexico, Young attempted to sell used rolling stock there, while Murchison attempted to buy mineral rights to offshore properties. Traders were hoping that Wednesday's US petroleum inventories report would suggest how badly the young Atlantic hurricane season had hurt production at offshore rigs. Show More Sentences Lead anodes also have high resistance to corrosion by seawater, making them economical to use in systems for the cathodic protection of ships and offshore rigs. The company, which has divisions in the Blue Toon, Aberdeen and Old Deer, makes hydraulic equipment such as winches and cranes, for the fishing and offshore industries. As you get into open waters, you select a split screen with the radar on the top half, and a chartplotter with an offshore waypoint on the bottom half. The school year on Flinders Island was scheduled around the muttonbirding season so that the children could go with their families to the offshore birding islands. Eventually the idea of using an offshore shell company in the Cayman Islands as a way to hide the paying of bribes became a more plausible, and attractive idea. Harnessing both offshore wind and wave power could provide at least 15 per cent of the total carbon savings required to meet the UK's 2050 targets, analysts found. For centuries, offshore rocks, strong surf, and dense fog have cursed boats landing and launching in the Atlantic. Sinking oil and gas wells offshore is a risky venture because of the danger of blowouts and pipeline ruptures, as well as the daily increments of pollution. A gaff is preferable to a Bermuda rig for most offshore conditions. Moreover, new problems are emerging from sources such as offshore aquaculture, wind energy development, bioprospecting, and ever-deeper oil and gas exploration. They can smell competition in the wind, so thought they'd have a lash at getting new offshore customers before they start losing their own to Chinese competitors. At the time British territorial waters stretched only three miles from the coast and Sealand, although built by the British, was a clear seven miles offshore. While people trapped in the Convention Center had no water and those in the Superdome were rationed to a pint a day, the USS Bataan waited for federal orders just offshore. This area affords excellent views of Burrard Inlet and rafts of offshore ducks. scoters, scaup, mergansers, goldeneye and buffleheads are all good possibilities. Ships are required to have oil-water separators, however the leftover oily water may be discharged at sea, depending upon its concentration, 12 to 200 miles offshore. A consortium of journalists has for months attempted to penetrate offshore banking secrecy. With city analysts constantly running the rule over its operations and competitors moving operations offshore, there would be enormous pressure to cut jobs here. But when modern-day conservationists surveyed the offshore rocks they discovered something even more ethereal lurking within. Scientists are attempting to save birds like this one by translocating them to offshore islands free of introduced predators like rats, cats, stoats, and weasels. As the sea level rose in the early to middle Holocene, dunes on the low-gradient shelf were transgressed and provided the core for the modern offshore sandy shoals. Show More Sentences When the sea ice receded from the coast of Nunivak Island in Alaska, it left 11 muskoxen trapped on a small islet offshore, doomed to die of starvation or thirst. The origin of the boat is still not known, but several Turkish nationals were on board the vessel, which idled offshore. He's out to lunch on this offshore thing but it's playing well at home. In graduate school I taught freshman history classes and shared an office with a fellow whose former career had been tool pusher on an offshore rig. The assemblage of decapods, one macruran, one anomuran and two brachyurans, is one that would be anticipated in the offshore, relatively quiet water setting of a delta front. The photo today is of a good catch of jewfish from offshore at Evans Head. Beautiful water surrounds Key West where they will find great fishing and the flats and offshore as well as diving and snorkelling on our barrier reef. A checklist and commentary on the scarabaeid fauna of the Massachusetts offshore islands. In Hawaii in 2002 it was a tree we found 20 miles offshore with thousands of mahimahi swarming around it. Santos in early October 2006 began gas production from Maleo in the offshore Madura PSC, 140 km east of the eastern Java city of Surabaya. Sheikh Hassan forgets we have more seat time in racing a turbine Mystic offshore boat than anyone. The main success is the Pelagian Basin in the Gulf of Gabes, where Libya's only producing offshore field is El Bouri. The offshore NC41 field is to be developed together with the gas reserves of the adjacent El Bouri field. Atwood will be providing the Atwood Southern Cross semisubmersible offshore drilling unit to conduct the work program. If swordfishermen can avoid very strong currents way offshore, they will get plenty of broadbills both day and night. Petronas has announced production of first oil from the offshore Kapal, Banang and Meranti Cluster fields off the coast of peninsular Malaysia. As it hunts for a new owner for the property, Moray Council has noted the offshore wind prospects of the Buckie shipyard in northeast Scotland. Tradeable in both yuan and Singapore dollars, it is seen as a significant move for Singapore, which aims to be an offshore yuan hub. Tarwhine, Rhabdosargus sarba, are also found in both estuarine and offshore waters, but large tarwhine seldom enter the estuaries. Cloud Carib specializes in offshore cloud hosting from datacenters in Nassau, Bahamas. Show More Sentences This system begins overseas, spans the offshore regions, and continues into our territorial seas and our ports. Adrian Lee was full of praise for his crew after breaking the 13-year-old monohull record for the longest offshore yacht race in the Arab region. The Miami-based National Hurricane Center said Claudette remains well offshore, about 465 kilometers south-southeast of Nantucket, Massachusetts. Farther offshore anglers can catch larger baits like pilchards or threadfins on gold hook rigs, especially along tidelines. Musial says the firm works with onshore and offshore fields, maps ground conditions, and measures the potential for thawing. Mr Weber, a toolpusher for offshore drilling company Transocean, was only released last week following work by the French and US governments. His worried family had expected the toolpusher, who works for offshore drilling company Transocean, to be held for months. Those species will join more than 1,000 staghorn coral raised in Mote's offshore nursery by a team led by another Staff Scientist, Erich Bartels. The refloating of ships stranded or sunk in exposed waters is called offshore salvage. Meantime, the loonie's buoyancy this year reflects growing interest in Canuckistan from offshore admirers. Low salinity surface coastal waters move offshore, and deeper, denser high salinity waters move in shore. There are also concerns about reliability, and the rising costs of constructing and maintaining offshore wind farms. There have also been proposals for a transnational power grid in the North Sea to connect new offshore wind farms. Associated offshore basaltic flows reach as far south as the Falkland Islands and South Africa. The zone focusses on technology for low carbon vehicle development, marine offshore and subsea engineering, petrochemicals and renewable energy. The decline of this industry as jobs moved offshore has resulted in a more diverse economy, as Bradford has developed new directions. Fugro Seacore in Mongleath near Falmouth are leading offshore drilling contractors. Grimsby is now transitioning to the processing of imported seafood and to offshore wind to replace its fishing fleet. These include offshore and onshore investment bonds issued by insurance companies. The Dutch area of the North Sea followed through with onshore and offshore gas exploration, and well creation. Show More Sentences It inhabits most oceans and adjoining seas, and prefers deep offshore waters. They can also be chartered for a wide variety of uses including inspections of shallow bed offshore wind farms and VIP or passenger use. Economically however, financial services associated with the territory's status as an offshore financial centre are by far the more important. The majority of this revenue is generated by the licensing of offshore companies and related services. The British Virgin Islands is a significant global player in the offshore financial services industry. However, Jersey and Guernsey have, since the 1960s, become major offshore financial centres on the scale of the Cayman Islands or Bermuda. The 2011 census records 94 Scottish islands as having a usually resident population of which 89 are offshore islands. The last three named plus two islands in Argyll and Bute are freshwater rather than offshore. It has a number of offshore islands, by far the largest of which is Anglesey. Anglesey also has 3 windfarms on land, and more than 20 offshore wind turbines established near the north coast. Its main industries are tourism, offshore incorporation and management, offshore banking, captive insurance and fishing. Bermuda's economy is based on offshore insurance and reinsurance, and tourism, the two largest economic sectors. The territory is often considered a major world offshore financial haven for many wealthy individuals. Light tax and death duties make Guernsey a popular offshore finance centre for private equity funds. Guernsey, with its sandy beaches, cliff walks, seascapes and offshore islands has been a tourist destination since at least the Victorian days. As with other offshore centres, Guernsey is coming under pressure from bigger nations to change its way of doing business. These may also be located offshore, such as in the case of many private foundations. Customers may open offshore accounts for any number of reasons, some of which are entirely legal but ethically questionable. Chinese companies may incorporate offshore in order to raise foreign capital, normally against the law in China. The offshore firms recycled the funds through land and property transactions in the United Kingdom. Show More Sentences Among the three of them, they may have hidden as much as a million pounds in offshore accounts. He is not the only prominent Spanish politician who had offshore companies. The news about Poroshenko's offshore business came as his government campaigned against offshore companies. He acknowledged having had offshore companies but said he shut them down after a short period of time. Sagi is sole shareholder of at least 16 Mossack Fonseca offshore companies, mostly real estate ventures. McClatchy Newspapers initially found four Americans with offshore shell companies named in the documents. Shortly afterwards the firm dropped the offshore due to lack of information. He was linked to two other offshore companies also registered during his father's term. His offshore company, Cadley House Ltd, was registered in the Seychelles with bearer bonds and a bank account in Morocco. The government of Rwanda uses an offshore company to lease a private jet for its senior politicians. Mossack Fonseca documents show that Pouye owned three offshore companies, Seabury Inc, Regory Invest and Latvae Inc. The law firm drafted the necessary legislation, permitting offshore companies to operate in total secrecy. In addition to its offshore operations in the British zone of North Sea, BP has interests in the Norwegian section of the sea. In January 2014, BG Group announced the initial drilling of an oil exploration well offshore in Kenya. Nevertheless, offshore wind power is significantly more expensive than onshore, which raises costs. Taken together it is estimated that this would result in the construction of over 7,000 offshore wind turbines. Siemens chose the Hull area on the east coast of England because it is close to other large offshore projects planned in coming years. The United Kingdom became the world leader of offshore wind power generation in October 2008 when it overtook Denmark. The Crown Estate proposed 9 offshore zones, within which a number of individual wind farms would be situated. Since 1991, offshore oil and gas has become an increasingly important part of the economy, although production and revenue are now declining. Show More Sentences The Red Sea also contains many offshore reefs including several true atolls. The cool California Current offshore often creates summer fog near the coast. Often indicated on navigation charts, they may be painted white or lit as beacons for greater visibility offshore. Usually painted white for improved offshore visibility, they serve as navigation aids. While the ships were lying offshore between St Andrews and Dundee, the spires of the parish church where he preached appeared in view. Strathaird is a relatively small peninsula close to the Cuillin hills with only a few crofting communities, the island of Soay lies offshore. Tiree is a popular windsurfing venue and is a proposed location for an offshore wind farm. The Argyll Array, an offshore wind farm development has been proposed around Skerryvore. It should also be noted that the Scottish figures exclude offshore oil revenue. Nevertheless, they have been recorded to move from onshore to offshore waters along coast. The airport also serves as the main heliport for the Scottish offshore oil industry. The Irish Sea area includes a large number of offshore rocks and islands and is notorious for strong tides. Boats sail from Tenby's harbour to the offshore monastic Caldey Island, while St Catherine's Island is a tidal island. They breed in large colonies on coastal cliffs or offshore islands, nesting in crevices among rocks or in burrows in the soil. North American birds migrate offshore and south, ranging from the Labrador Sea south to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland to New England. They are found in both temperate and tropical seas, mostly living along the coast or offshore in the oceanic environment. From there they may move offshore into deeper waters and spend the winter in relative inactivity. Siemens and Vestas are the leading turbine suppliers for offshore wind power. In 2012, 1,662 turbines at 55 offshore wind farms in 10 European countries produced 18 TWh, enough to power almost five million households. A number of initiatives are working to reduce costs of electric power from offshore wind. Show More Sentences However, the projects to build offshore parks have been more controversial. In a typical operation a surface vessel carries passengers to an offshore operating area and loads them into the submarine. Most species inhabit coastal areas, though some travel offshore and feed in deep waters off oceanic islands. Since 2005, the coast off Walney has become a centre for the construction of offshore wind farms. A member of the lower epipelagic community, the opah feeds on squid and fishes and is usually found well offshore. In this case, the oceanic plate subducts, or submerges, under the continental plate, forming a deep ocean trench just offshore. The campaign featured the Robin Rigg offshore wind farm in the Solway Firth, currently in development. Wind turbines can be used to generate electricity in areas with strong, steady winds, sometimes offshore. Cyprus has been sought as a base for several offshore businesses for its low tax rates. The large depth and harsh waters of the Norwegian Sea pose significant technical challenges for offshore drilling. In major storms, the largest waves offshore are about 15 meters high and have a period of about 15 seconds. Oscillating Water Column devices can be located on shore or in deeper waters offshore. The Channel Tunnel study proposed three possible locations, two south of Calais and one offshore. In the northern extremity of the Fowlsheugh is an offshore skerry named Craiglethy, and slightly further a skerry called Gull Craig. Bird species present are primarily auks and gulls, which feed in nearby offshore waters as well as more distant North Sea reaches. In areas where the two groups feed on the same prey, the auks tend to feed further offshore. To optimize the costs and risks of installing large offshore platforms, different construction strategies have been developed. One strategy is to fully construct the offshore facility onshore, and tow the installation to site floating on its own buoyancy. In the tenth century, longships would sometimes be tied together in offshore battles to form a steady platform for infantry warfare. Another method involves mooring to offshore buoys, such as a single point mooring, and making a cargo connection via underwater cargo hoses. Find more words! 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