When the early settlers sailed to Rapa Nui from Polynesia, life on the lost island was all about living off the sea, and evidence indicates that crude surfboards were constructed for travel and fishing.
Settling into my four-poster bed, I'm lulled by the sound of the wind spiralling up off the sea, joined by the faint creak of a rocking chair and, just perhaps, the slightest click of a key turning in a lock.
The report recommends a total ban on cod fishing in the North Sea, the Irish Sea, waters in the west of Scotland, and in the Skagerrak Sea off the Danish coast.
Also the sand blows in on the roads and that has to be cleared off and the sea wall has to be maintained.
Mr Reynolds and his daughter followed the dogs into the sea off the groyne near Palace Pier.
All the energy America needs for the next 100 years lies under the sea off the coast of South Carolina.
Various irritations may have stirred Ethiopia's fear of being cut off from the sea, and Eritrea's fear that its new independence might be infringed by a resentful Ethiopia.
On day three, a troop of baboons go about their daily grooming and tick-picking tasks with nonchalance, ignoring both the camera-toting hikers and the dollops of yellow foam blowing off the angry sea.
My destination: Samso -- a barely populated (4, 000 at the last count) Danish island which spends the majority of the year being lashed by ferocious gales that sweep in off the freezing sea.
Having failed to break the line in the opening 19-12 defeat to New Zealand - no great disgrace really - Warren Gatland's side could then summon only one against Samoa as they held off the South Sea Islanders 17-13.
Five years later, Chinese military commanders were frustrated when they couldn't locate two carrier groups that the U.S. deployed near Taiwan after China fired missiles into the sea off the island's coast in a failed attempt to influence the outcome of an election there, according to several defense analysts.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported the drills will take place Monday or Tuesday in the Yellow Sea off the island.
He discovered gas fields in Louisiana in the 1960s and, a decade later, oil in the North Sea off the Netherlands.
An estimated 200 people took to the North Sea off the coast of North Tyneside to welcome in the new year.
The group made the border crossing Saturday in the Yellow Sea off the west of the Korean peninsula, the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said this week.
On June 16th, North Korean fishing boats once again moved up to the disputed buffer zone marked by the Northern Limit Line in the Yellow Sea off the west coast but this time they and North Korea's navy kept their distance.
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An Indian Navy officer, on board a ship off the coast, said the sea level was unchanged.
Dr Kato's team has already tested the system successfully in the sea off Ofunato, in the east of the country, and a new system will be placed off Muroto promontory, in the west, early next year.
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About 10 years ago, scientists began mapping the floor of the Barents Sea, off the coast of Norway in the Arctic Circle.
The Osprey flew south, destined for the deck of the U.S.S. Carl Vinson a thousand-foot-long nuclear-powered aircraft carrier sailing in the Arabian Sea, off the Pakistani coast.
One afternoon last winter, two ships lined up side by side in a field of pack ice at the mouth of the Ross Sea, off the coast of Antarctica.
In addition to stalling projects in the Adriatic Sea and off the coast of Sicily, opponents successfully introduced a national ban on offshore efforts within five nautical miles of the Italian shore.
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The sewage began entering the sea off Thanet on 30 May when the Southern Water Foreness Point Sewage Pumping Station failed.
From the top of Devil Island, off the eastern edge of the Antarctic Peninsula, the watery sun reflects off the vast tabular icebergs drifting around the Weddell Sea.
The pair's radars work by constantly bouncing microwave pulses off the ground and sea surface.
This happened again on March 23rd when North Korea's naval command announced that it would restrict access to five disputed islands off the west coast in the Yellow Sea.
The direct impacts are the run-off of melting waters into the sea.
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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.
Cairn Energy is to focus its drilling efforts in 2013 in the North Sea, and off the Atlantic coast of Morocco.
Earlier this year Cairn said it was to focus its drilling efforts in 2013 in the North Sea, and off the Atlantic coast of Morocco.
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