• Spanning 74 acres in the Ionian Sea, Skorpios sits off the west coast of mainland Greece.

    FORBES: Confirmed: Russian Billionaire Heiress Buys Famed Greek Island Of Skorpios

  • Three crewman have been taken hostage after pirates attacked a British ship off the west coast of Africa.

    BBC: Pirates attack British cargo ship in Gulf of Guinea

  • But the depths of the Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of Scotland are home to cold-water reefs.

    BBC: Underwater robots to 'repair' Scotland's coral reefs

  • It has hills for quick getaways, swimming off the west coast beaches and it is cosy without being parochial.

    CNN: Georgetown

  • On the island of Cumbrae off the west coast of Scotland, GPs argue that they cannot provide the same levels of service without funding.

    BBC: Rural drug dispensaries row takes fresh twist

  • This year, Cairn should complete analysis of data from other exploration blocks off the west coast of Greenland, and will then seek exploration investment partners.

    BBC: Cairn Energy announces its 2013 strategy

  • 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.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Blockade on port of Calais lifted

  • San Antonio's previous record flooding in 1998 was devastating, caused by heavy rains throughout south Texas and by a plume of moist air from Hurricane Madeline off the west coast of Mexico.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Hebridean Marine Energy Futures, a project involving the college in partnership with universities and energy companies, has been recording wave heights off the west coast of Lewis for more than two years.

    BBC: Could big waves be big news for the Western Isles?

  • Research into floating turbines is underway and, as Professor Garvey points out there are steep ocean shelves off the west coast of France and Portugal and around the entire periphery of the Mediterranean.

    CNN: Where to store wind-powered energy? Under water!

  • Dolores Kelly of the SDLP said she hoped that members would join her in extending condolences to the families of the fishermen lost in the sinking of a trawler off the west coast of Cork the previous weekend.

    BBC: December Fisheries Council Meeting

  • The party debated a wide range of issues over the weekend, from the development of wave energy off the west coast of Scotland to a call for the War Crimes Commission for the former Yugoslavia to report on the feasibility of prosecuting KLA leaders.

    BBC: Conference hears exams call

  • If the next stage of testing goes according to plan, Mortimer says that work will soon begin on a fleet of the turbines -- manufactured by Andritz Hydro Hammerfest -- and will be installed at another site in the Sound of Islay off the west coast of Scotland.

    CNN: Tide turns towards undersea energy

  • Sandra Cruz from Cape Verde, off the West African coast, addressed the panel while cradling her 15-month-old daughter.

    NPR: Communities Cite Impact of Immigration Raids

  • More than 1, 000 ex-servicemen say their lives were destroyed after the UK carried out a series of nuclear weapons tests in mainland Australia, the Montebello islands off the west Australian coast and on Christmas Island, in the Pacific, between 1952 and 1958.

    BBC: Veterans' long battle for nuclear tests' compensation

  • The recent ruling by a U.S. District Court judge that sonar training off of the West Coast was not a national security issue, but rather an environmental issue subject to the constraints of federal environmental statutes, illustrates the reality of this risk.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Sirens in the Strait

  • Nasa says its six-tonne UARS satellite plunged to Earth over the Pacific Ocean, off the US west coast.

    BBC: Nasa's UARS satellite falls off west coast of US

  • If they pass environmental impact and other regulatory assessments the partners plan to locate up to 11 of the units in deeper water off the west Wales coast.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | South West Wales | Wave power plan for Welsh coast

  • Exercise IOWave11 re-enacted the 26 December 2004 earthquake event, with a 9.2 magnitude earthquake off the North West coast of Sumatra (Indonesia), followed by an ocean-wide tsunami.

    UNESCO: THEMES

  • San Antonio's previous record flooding in 1998 was devastating, caused by heavy rains throughout south Texas and by a plume of moist air from Hurricane Madeline off the Mexican west coast.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • The scenario established for the "Exercise IOWAVE 11" re-enacts the events of 26 December 2004, with a 9.2 magnitude earthquake off the North West coast of Sumatra (Indonesia), followed by an ocean-wide tsunami.

    UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

  • If approved, and ExxonMobil can build the barge as planned, it could be in production by the year 2020, about four years after Royal Dutch Shell commissions its FLNG vessel atop the Prelude gas field, also off the west Australian coast.

    FORBES: ExxonMobil Joins LNG Rush With Barge 6X Bigger Than An Aircraft Carrier

  • DryShips does have operating contracts for its two existing drillships transporting drilling rigs in the Black Sea and the other off the coast of West Africa, and these two vessels are responsible for more than 40% of revenues in the first quarter.

    FORBES: DryShips Sails Against The Crude Current

  • The white-haired wildcatter is trying one last time to etch his legacy in the deep waters off the coast of West Africa.

    FORBES: An oilman's last hurrah

  • An Australian man has been seriously wounded in a shark attack off the country's west coast, in the third such incident this month.

    BBC: Australia shark attack on surfer is third this year

  • The proposed wind farm would be located off the Dorset and Hampshire coast and to the west of the Isle of Wight.

    BBC: Navitus Bay protest in Swanage

  • And public hostility to immigrants grew after a ship carrying almost 500 Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka arrived off the country's west coast in August.

    ECONOMIST: Immigration in Canada

  • Ocean Energy brings a whole portfolio of high-risk, high-return projects, from deepwater blocks off the coast of West Africa to one promising field that lies 9, 300 feet below the Gulf of Mexico.

    FORBES: Devon Energy Gets Into Deep Water

  • Musselman's strategy is to focus Triton on its best prospect, a collection of leases off the coast of West Africa that cover fields that could contain more than 1 billion barrels of oil, according to analyst Robert Gillon with John S. Herold, Inc.

    FORBES: One Tamed Wildcat

  • Musselman's strategy is to focus Triton on its best prospect, a collection of leases off the coast of West Africa covering fields that may contain more than a billion barrels of oil, according to Robert Gillon, an analyst with John S. Herold, Inc.

    FORBES: One Tamed Wildcat

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