The south-east corner of Britain is gently subsiding while the sea is rising, as it warms, so the relative level of the sea is increasing.
Officials said the Washington is deployed in the East China Sea and the Stennis is in the South China Sea.
The trouble starts with the names: the Sea of Japan is the East Sea to South Korea, and the East Sea of Korea to Pyongyang.
The Gulf of Aden, which lies between the Horn of Africa and the Arabian peninsula, is the gateway to the southern Red Sea, which is linked to the Mediterranean Sea by the Suez Canal.
The average temperature is above 40C, the sea is like a warm bath, the golden sand burns your feet and the ubiquitous tarmac is starting to sizzle.
The fairways are bracketed with heather, and then with gorse, so that at the right time of year when everything is blooming, the course becomes a sea of green, purple and yellow that is compounded by the sea, the sand, and some of the most incredible sunsets anyplace.
Unlike bland, austere northern Taiwan, Green Island is a sparkling paradise, a volcanic island where the sea is always blue and the weather sunny and warm.
The area is near the sea, skiing in the mountains, has medieval villages and is less than an hour from the airport in Pisa.
Moreover, the world is growing warmer, and the sea is rising.
Perhaps, then, the only other novel on the shortlist that is similar in style to The Sea is Sebastian Barry's A Long Long Way.
Looking up at its vertiginous cliffs from the foaming sea is overwhelming: rolling banks of sea mist tumble down from the slopes of the interior and birds wheel overhead.
Typically the rule of the sea is that the finders get to keep 80 percent of the treasure.
And there over the North Sea is the richest country in Europe: exemplary Germany, with its technical schools and apprenticeships, its respect for engineers, and its layer of family businesses known as the Mittelstand that puts long-term reputation above short-term profit by making the specialised parts that industry everywhere needs.
Inversely, if the land is sinking, it looks like the sea is rising.
The sea link is the first part of the ambitious, and some say misguided, Western Freeway Sea Project aimed at providing a faster alternative to Mumbai's north-south traffic that currently moves at a crawling pace.
Beneath the surface of the water they are a creamy turquoise, and when the sky is clear, as it is now, the cerulean reflection on the sea is otherworldly.
If the otter is the symbol of the trail, the sound of the sea is its soundtrack.
Mr. RUPP: Well, east up by the Red Sea is perhaps the poorest region of Sudan, and there is a feeling that at least some of the tribes in that area have been excluded from discussions, and the concern on the part, I think, of the Sudanese government as well as others of us that there--that could be a next area of conflict.
So the South China Sea region and the sea lines that it contains is incredibly vital to the region, to our partners and allies, and certainly to the United States.
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The food is excellent - the branzino (Mediterranean sea bass) is perfect - although it should be for the Manhattan prices.
That is part of the reason why the sea level is now rising at 3-3.5mm a year, twice the average annual rate in the 20th century.
Formed by storm tides as early as the 10th Century, the Wadden Sea is responsible for the distinctive formations of its many islands, characterised by high sand dunes and lush, wide beaches on the open sea side and a shallow coast towards the mainland.
The record office said the Raymond Frostick Map Collection included maps where the North Sea is described as the German Ocean - a term often used until World War I - and King's Lynn was called three different names - Linn, Lyn and Lin.
"One thing that will change in the UK, is that gas extraction is no longer in the North sea it is in people's neighbourhood, " he said.
Then there is the South China Sea, where China is locking horns with countries such as Vietnam and the Philippines that also claim portions of the potentially resource-rich waters.
As in previous years the Arctic Sea is opening up on the Atlantic side, north of Scandinavian countries and Russia.
The deep-sea plunge is the crucial element to achieving Browne's promise of turning in earnings growth of 10% a year even as revenue grows only half as fast.
The discovery conjures up a picture of wandering groups of hunters making their way across dry land where the North Sea is now, after the end of the Ice Age.
China's claim in the South China Sea is by far the largest, and includes the Spratly and Paracel archipelagos.
The album's opener, "Spanish Village By The Sea, " is the record's sole instrumental track, and the melodic strings that drive it set it apart sonically.
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