Sentence examples for off the shoal from inspiring English sources
The Shen Neng 1 was hauled off the reef late Monday after a delicate three-day operation to remove the 1,075 tons of engine fuel in the ship's tanks and lift it off the shoal.
He reasoned that if the Navy got her on to the shoal, then they should be responsible for getting her off the shoal.
The navigators conceived the idea of rocking her off the shoal.
What started out innocuously as illegal poaching by Chinese fisherman in waters off the shoal in April 2012 soon developed into a stand-off at sea that lasted several weeks.
About the time that Missouri began to move again she suffered one last incident: while being towed off the shoal she bumped into Windlass, wiping out a portion of Windlasss side railing.
The rest of the squadron was ordered to provide ship's boats to attempt to tow Hannibal off the shoal but the attempt failed, Caesar's pinnace sinking in the process after being struck by a cannonball.
"We might be able to go back to Scarborough Shoal". The blockade of the shoal had set off a chain reaction of devastating consequences for people in the coastal village of Masinloc.
Philippine and Chinese vessels have been facing off at the shoal since 8 April.
2012 May - Philippines and Chinese naval vessels confront one another off the Scarborough Shoal reef in the South China Sea.
Once in range, Pallas fired into the enemy, bringing down the main topsail yard of one of the smaller vessels, before making off among the shoals with Minerve in pursuit.
