Like some oil rigs

Usage examples of offshore.

As long as he was stunned by his sighting, as long as they could keep him fascinated by the possibility that a mermaid lurked offshore, they might be able to either push or pull him where they pleased.

He ordered all press of sail, and with the winds whistling through the rigging and the little ship straining to the smashing seas, did his best to outspeed disease, sighting the long line of surf-washed Aleutian Islands in September, coasting from headland to headland, keeping well offshore for fear of reefs till the end of the month, when compelled to turn in to the mid-bay of Oonalaska for water.

Dog-shit offshore rig puking your guts out over the side after eating a big sweet ham that the cooking steward had been screwing all month.

I found my shoe and carefully picked my way across the rocky shore toward the skiff, which was just offshore under a large underhang of rock.

Still, I suppose in the unfished offshore waters a few of the large forms survive.

The first vinta had reached the group and was standing only a few feet offshore.

Duckett read on to the paragraph directing Allentown north to Warplan Station Number One, directly offshore from Severomorsk Naval Complex in Russian waters.

The message would be further relayed by the command back in Little Creek to the Navy, and finally back to the Archerfish offshore.

From the patrol line a few miles offshore the DE sailors could watch the big transports approaching the airstrip at Biak, some of them towing boxy-looking troop gliders which they cut loose to angle down and disappear behind the trees.

She was crewed by a family of Dayaks from one of the offshore rigs, an old woman with four sons.

A man could be swept out to sea from one section of the shore, while a hundred yards away children cavorted in the diminishing waves without noticing the slightest tug from the current The unrelenting force of a rip current occurs when the longshore flow returns to the sea through narrow, stormgrooved valleys in offshore sandbars.

RIB boat five Marines, two merchant mariners, the foreign office adviser and me miles north of Diego Garcia checking the offshore islands in the Chagos Archipelago for yachts or any Russian or Mauritian ships illegally taking the fish off the coral reefs in British territorial waters.

There are the Muong Song pirates on some offshore islands, as well as a small colony recently established by people from Boradu on an island continent a few degrees south of the equator, but the Democratic Republic of Elneal is the only body politic.

The coastline ran generally northeastward, and for much of its distance, offshore islands and bars formed a naturally protected waterway, as if God had meant to make his exploration safe from the whims of the unruly sea.

It takes a long time for cement to cure in the tropics, and the artifact stayed floating offshore, shrouded, for two weeks while the thick slab, laced with rebar, slowly hardened.