Last weekend a combination of heavy seas, tidal forces and winds caused flooding and damage on the North Sea coast from Shetland to East Lothian.
An estimated 200 people took to the North Sea off the coast of North Tyneside to welcome in the new year.
The EC has stopped short of recommending a total ban on cod fishing in the North Sea, Irish Sea and off the west coast of Scotland, despite the advice of experts.
Four people have been rescued after they got into trouble in the sea off the north Antrim coast.
Cairn Energy is to focus its drilling efforts in 2013 in the North Sea, and off the Atlantic coast of Morocco.
Earlier this year Cairn said it was to focus its drilling efforts in 2013 in the North Sea, and off the Atlantic coast of Morocco.
But there have been beach libraries dotting the Dutch coast of the North Sea for six years now, including branches in Katwijk, Makkum and Kijkduin.
The only territorial haggling, it is assumed, will be over Syria's demand to restore the precise situation on the eve of the 1967 war, when it held Israel claims illegally the north-eastern coast of the Sea of Galilee.
North Korea doesn't claim either of Yeonpyeong or Baengnyeong islands, which are visible from the North Korean coast, but it does claim the sea area around both and wants the maritime border moved several miles south of the border drawn up by the United Nations in 1953 when the Korean War reached an armistice.
About 450 lobsters have been released back into the North Sea after they were forced ashore on the East Yorkshire coast by strong winds.
The Saints will play the first, home leg at Newtown's Latham Park, with the return in Ventspils, a city in north-western Latvia on the coast of the Baltic Sea.
The report recommends a total ban on cod fishing in the North Sea, the Irish Sea, waters in the west of Scotland, and in the Skagerrak Sea off the Danish coast.
Biden and for that matter Secretary Perry may be saying that they would support the deployment of a sea-based missile defense off the coast of North Korea provided the system so deployed was compliant with the ABM Treaty.
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Biden -- and for that matter Secretary Perry -- may be saying that they would support the deployment of a sea-based missile defense off the coast of North Korea provided the system so deployed was compliant with the ABM Treaty.
On Monday, the North launched two short-range missiles from its eastern coast into the sea, following a launch of four similar missiles over the weekend.
For the past decade production in the North Sea has been dwindling but a new boom in gas extraction off the east coast may soon reverse that downward slide.
Sailing along the coast of Siberia by the north-east passage, or Northern Sea Route (NSR), as Russians and mariners call it, cuts the distance between western Europe and east Asia by roughly a third.
On June 16th, North Korean fishing boats once again moved up to the disputed buffer zone marked by the Northern Limit Line in the Yellow Sea off the west coast but this time they and North Korea's navy kept their distance.
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The sighting of sperm whales off Scotland's north-west coast in winter has been described as "extraordinary" by research charity Sea Watch.
At the same time, on the opposite coast, warships of the North and South Korean navies had a brief but violent sea battle in which one North Korean torpedo boat was sunk.
Cooler climates like the North Sea are less likely to be troubled, unless ships come from similar waters such as the east coast of the US. They conclude that very long trips are less likely to be a cause for concern.
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