As a result, the eminent biologist who runs the centre, Dr Robin Crump, was presented with a unique "before and after" study which is providing valuable information about the precise impact of oil on the life of the sea-shore.
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Offshore breakwater: structure parallel to the shore, usually positioned in the sea, that protects the shore from waves.
On the road from Amasra, 12km before Cide, a small winding road leads to Gideros Bay, where the Kure mountains part to reveal pristine turquoise blue waters, clear enough to see the sea bed from the shore.
Their shrieks of laughter drift to the shore on the sea air.
Ohalo II was a settlement on the shore of the Sea of Galilee that was inhabited around 23, 000 years ago and was discovered in 1989.
Moreover, onshore production of floating turbines that are then towed offshore to be anchored in place should prove cheaper than the weather-restricted and costly off-shore construction of sea-bed turbines.
In time, says Simmons, he envisions turbines spinning on hundreds of those gulf platforms, which would be outfitted with gear to make ammonia at sea and send it to shore through pipelines now used for oil and gas.
Russia is rapidly developing the energy-rich Yamal Peninsula, on the eastern shore of the Kara Sea.
The capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a modern miracle on the shore of the Arabian Sea.
Ephesus was actually on the Turkish shore of the Aegean Sea, which featured spectacular Roman engineering, especially plumbing.
He therefore went to the shore and commanded the sea to recede.
Now all 14 of its 'berths' - areas of sea connected by cable to the shore - are booked, a sign of growing interest in this fledgling source of power.
" At a February meeting in Sea Bright, just up the shore from Long Branch, the town's mayor acknowledged, "People fear a heartless government coming in and taking away their land.
One day, I flew due west from Anchorage to the town of Bethel, on the flat, drab sprawl of waterlogged tundra that reaches between the deltas of the Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers to the shore of the Bering Sea.
Even the beach is not what it seems: the coral reefs stretch from the shore far out to sea, and although Egyptian laws protecting the reefs are regularly violated by developers who bulldoze their way through reefs, tourists may find they have to pick their way for some distance over the delicate sharp reefs, damaging both them and their feet, to find deep water.
He realized that nearly 50 people were on the ice that had become separated from the shore and being blown out to sea by the prevailing wind.
He fell into the sea when he and his parents were walking near the shore.
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The famous Hellenistic science, grown on the shore of Asia Minor, on the Ionio sea, with Talete, died in Alessandria after six or seven centuries.
Above sea level, the offshore structure has been bolted together with a conventional offshore turbine of the sort used for near-shore wind farms that are bolted to the sea-bed.
Paul Morris, from South Shore, Blackpool, was washed into the sea by a wave while walking a dog with a friend in the early hours of New Year's Day.
The poem, which was discovered by retired manuscript dealer Roy Davids, begins with the lines: "The shadow falls along the shore, the search lights twinkle on the sea, the silence of a mighty fleet, portends the tumult yet to be".
Most Florida mansions at the time were built back from the sea on a low limestone ridge that ran slightly inland from the shore along the coast south of downtown Miami.
Shore: narrow strip of land in immediate contact with the sea.
After graduating he worked briefly for the North Wales water authority and from 1985 to 1986 he worked as a sub-sea engineer and diver for British Underwater Engineering based in London, spending a lot of time off-shore.
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