But most of this oil is close to the shoreline.
Recently, a red fox has been hunting in the marsh behind my condo on the Connecticut shoreline.
Coral reefs provide vital habitats for fish, help protect shoreline areas during storms, and support a thriving snorkeling and scuba diving industry.
When the 2010 Chilean tsunami arrived in California, people in Santa Monica Beach were mesmerized by the rapid withdrawal of the shoreline and went out to gawk at stranded marine life.
He was flying over a sea, toward a jagged shoreline.
Over the years he and his colleagues have produced scores of research papers, atlases of shoreline change and other reports.
The US Coast Guard said it had sent investigators to confirm whether crude oil had begun to wash up on parts of the Louisiana shoreline.
Standing on the cliffs, he gazed at the distant shoreline of France.
These beaches made Suchen think of a ragged shoreline in Ireland or the clashing waves of the North Sea at the mouth of a Norwegian fjord.
Along the route, villages shelter in the deeply fissured shoreline.
I saw the shoreline water heave above a thrashing paichi, an enormous black fish of these waters; one had been caught the previous week weighing430 pounds.
"Property" means any property not permanently and intentionally attached to the shoreline and includes freight at risk.
EMILY can be deployed from the shoreline, or tossed from a boat or aircraft.
Many oil-soaked beaches along Dalian's shoreline remain closed, though children and tourists have been seen frolicking on them, the Associated Press reported.
The effects of the spill reach beyond the shoreline.
Intense hurricane winds pummel the shoreline.
