When the robbery occurred, the vessel was anchored about 250 yards off a beach near the harbor.
It anchored about 250 yards off Fazendinha, a popular beach eight miles west of the downtown area of this city, which straddles the equator.
Oil is pumped from these tanks to tankers anchored about 1.5 km offshore at a pumping-station platform.
Now that we have two women anchors, how about having a woman introduce the news?
They anchored about half a mile from the Ocearch, in about twenty feet of water, off Monomoy Island, which is uninhabited, and about six miles south of Chatham harbor.
Slights are painfully noted, as when NBC News Washingtonn bureau chief, Tim Russert, gave a televised tutorial to Brian Williams, the anchor, about the early states without ever uttering Nevada's name.
The TV Watch column on Tuesday, about "Titans at the Table" on Bloomberg TV, in mentioning rivals to Bloomberg, paraphrased incorrectly a comment by a Fox Business Network anchor about the cost to taxpayers of fuel used on Air Force One.
When the elegant Frenchman reached the edge of the water with the raft, he fastened the oars to it and began to row it slowly toward a sizeable motor launch, which was anchored about fifty feet offshore.
The dive vessel we were on, Spoil Sport, had arrived there earlier in the day, three days after cyclone Nathan passed, and anchored about a kilometre from the new coral cays.
The device was anchored about ninety feet beneath a barge, and when it exploded it sent up an immense column of radioactive seawater, topped by a flattened white mushroom cloud.
