Providence Resources is currently exploring six sites off the island of Ireland, including those off County Cork and Rathlin island.
It's 1965, and a major storm is bearing down on New Penzance Island, off the coast of New England, and their disappearance sets off an island-wide search and rescue mission.
The closure of bridges and tunnels off the island left it effectively cut off from the mainland for now.
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The main island, Apo Island -- not to be confused with the better known island of the same name off the island of Negros in the central Philippines -- is a palm-fringed beauty, ringed by golden sand and home to an emerald-green interior lagoon embraced by mangroves.
That effort eventually led to a pilot farm 2 miles off Culebra Island in Puerto Rico.
In 1941, the SS Politician did run aground at Calvay, just off the island of Eriskay.
But in Florida anyone trying to get people off the island wins sympathy from Cuban exiles.
The collision off Lamma Island was the worst maritime accident in Hong Kong for over 40 years.
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Miss Hepburn swam throughout the year off Long Island, a regime she kept up into old age.
Or how about off Long Island, just four miles out from the beaches of the Hamptons?
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The Costa Concordia still lies next to the rocky outcrops off Giglio Island in Italy's Tuscan coast.
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With day-traders thriving and Datek taking off, Island's volume has swelled to 34 million shares per day recently.
The July 17 crash into the Atlantic Ocean off Long Island, New York, killed all 230 people aboard.
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They found that their model described the Easter microplate (just off Easter Island, in the Pacific) quite well.
The bad was they didn't have enough money to get off the island.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported the drills will take place Monday or Tuesday in the Yellow Sea off the island.
At 6 a.m. the morning after the murder, three men were discovered trying to sneak off the island via the ferry.
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The jetliner exploded shortly after takeoff from New York's Kennedy Airport and fell into the Atlantic Ocean just off Long Island.
Capt Schettino steered the vessel closer to land to where it now lies on its side just metres off Giglio island.
The couple's children, now middle aged, frequently implore them to move off the island and live with them on the mainland.
Rosneft is already pulling its weight, in partnership with foreign firms, exploring for deposits off Sakhalin island in the far east.
With all their bickering, they've managed to isolate themselves from almost everyone both on and off the island, including their own children.
At present patients have to be transferred by ambulance to Seaclose in Newport before the patient can be airlifted off the Island.
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Mrs Vaudin said the offer of respite care over full weekends to enable carers to take an off-island break was particularly welcome.
Commerce and Employment Minister Kevin Stewart said the States were working out the costs of building a sizable farm off the island's north coast.
When the water gets cold, from December to March, many head south again, fattening up on bluefish, menhaden and squid near shipwrecks off Hatteras Island and Morehead City.
The waste strategy, which includes kerbside collections of recyclables and export waste off the island, is due to be rolled out over the next few years.
The massive passenger ship Costa Concordia struck rocks and rolled onto its side in shallow water off an island on Italy's Tuscan coast on January 13.
When the cruise ship Costa Concordia struck a reef off the island of Giglio on January 13, international attention inevitably focused on the actions of the master.
At the helm of his Chesapeake Privateer, Captain Joseph Frohnhoefer shakes off lingering anxiety as he guns his engines across the glistening green waters off Shelter Island, N.
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