Two French sailors have been rescued in separate operations in high seas off Cornwall.
Morocco is renegotiating a fishing agreement with Europe which includes the seas off Western Sahara.
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Oil firms are searching harder in more remote places, such as the Arctic and the deep seas off Brazil.
Codenamed "Operation Leech, " the mission mostly involved intercepting illegal consignments of arms on the high seas off the Andaman Islands.
The decision to pause drilling for oil in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas off Alaska was widely expected, following a catalogue of problems last year.
In several parts of the world, such as the seas off the coast of Florida, toxic dinoflagellates sometimes develop into enormous blooms called red tides.
Great Lakes sailors love nothing better than beating the pants off skippers from the seas and coasts--and they've been doing it for some time.
The 10th Forbes Investor Cruise kicked off yesterday in rolling seas.
From July to September (July is the best month) a couple of thousand of these big boys come to feed off the plankton-rich seas.
But for strategists grappling with the diminished safety of the world's seas off east Africa and in other perilous spots such as South-East Asia and the waters of Nigeria figuring out a sensible and workable division of labour between navies and private firms is not easy.
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) marked its annual World Maritime Day celebration today with a collective call-to-action to the United Nations, world governments, military forces and even shipowners and crews reminding them that they all play an integral role in helping rid the world of modern-day piracy on the high seas, especially off the coast of Somalia and Indian Ocean.
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The vessel had been damaged and took on water in rough seas some 120 miles off Aberdeen, the coastguard said.
"Because the life raft canister did not fit snugly into its cradle, the skipper had applied additional lashings to prevent it from falling off the wheelhouse roof in heavy seas, " the report said.
The 60ft multihull fleet had been storm-bound for three days but set off in 20 knot breezes and flat seas.
Back in 1998, when he sailed his yacht, the Sayonara, in the Sydney to Hobart race, he and his crew endured 630 miles through rough seas and hurricane-force winds off Australia.
That year Captain James Cook set off on the Endeavour, sailing to the South Seas to chart the transit of Venus and search for what turned out to be Australia.
An RNLI spokesman said the crews faced strong south-south-westerly winds and rough seas as the inshore lifeboat pulled the yacht off the rocks before the larger lifeboat took it under tow.
Completed in 1854, it stood on the highest pinnacle of the rock, but even at that height it was pounded mercilessly by high seas, and during storms the crockery would rattle off the table.
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Tucked into a grove of palms off a dirt road, Praia dos Carneiros looks like it escaped from a South Seas postcard.
Mrs Jones' crew was sent out on 24 August 2004 when the fishing vessel Gower Pride suffered engine failure in rough seas, with the skipper and an injured fisherman on board near the Nash sandbanks off Porthcawl.
More hazardous still were fires out on oil platforms, such as the Bravo blowout in the North Sea in 1977 and the Piper Alpha disaster, off Aberdeen, in 1988, where the capping of the well had to be done in the face of mountainous seas.
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