Sentences with phrase «although offshore waters»

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It will be the first oil - exploration programme to run in US Arctic waters since 2000, and could mark the start of the first offshore commercial drilling in the American north, although it would take another decade to establish production wells.

Although constituting just 4 % of the ocean, coral reefs are home to 25 % of all the marine species in the world, making the offshore waters of Belize an enormous living aquarium.

Although Lighthouse Reef is one of the smallest islands offshore of Belize, it is home to the Belize Blue Hole, a nearly perfectly circular body of deep azure water that was rated by famed marine biologist Jacques Cousteau as one of the top 10 diving spots on the planet.