How to Use deepwater in a Sentence

deepwater

adjective

• Not much for deepwater exploration, the pupfish stay at depths of 80 feet or less.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times, 9 May 2024
• In 2013, the two companies drilled a deepwater well together in the gulf.
  — Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 16 Mar. 2023
• Crews have worked to clear the debris and reopen the deepwater shipping channel into the Port of Baltimore by the end of May.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 7 May 2024
• The project will include two pipelines to carry crude from shore to the deepwater port, reducing the need for ship-to-ship transfers of oil.
  — Matthew Daly, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2024
• The depot, which includes two deepwater docks, is close to opening.
  — Keith Schneider, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2020
• The dive was part of an expedition in the Gulf of Alaska to explore deepwater habitats.
  — CBS News, 8 Sep. 2023
• Ultra-deepwater drilling is so complex that experts liken it to space travel, and the dangers are well known.
  — Antonia Juhasz, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2022
• Plans include $600 million to build the nation’s first deepwater Arctic port in Nome.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Aug. 2023
• The answer came from the Port of Stockton, which regularly dredges the nearby deepwater channel and was looking for a place to dump sand.
  — Judith Prieve, The Mercury News, 5 May 2024
• For centuries, the deepwater, Caribbean harbor in Charlotte Amalie welcomed traders and tourists from across the globe.
  — Joe Sills, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
• At a coarse level, there are three types of shipping, transoceanic or deepwater routes, short sea or near shore routes and inland shipping.
  — Michael Barnard, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• The lavish Lowcountry compound also includes a 550-foot deepwater dock, a kayak launch, and a boat lift.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 15 Aug. 2023
• The cofounder of the company whose submersible imploded on a visit to the deepwater site of the Titanic’s remains is turning his eyes to the stars.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2023
• Much smaller than the colossal squid, at only a foot in length at most, its eyes are around an inch wide, useful for parsing out light in its deepwater habitat.
  — Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2024
• When deepwater fish are brought rapidly to the surface, gases in their organs and tissues expand.
  — Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2019
• Oil experts say a key reason for the interest was that exploration in the deepwater oil fields — known as pre-salt, for their blanket of salt — has become less risky and cheaper over the years.
  — Vinod Sreeharsha, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
• Another potential prospect is the Calypso field, off the coast of the island of Tobago, which could be the nation’s first deepwater gas field.
  — Clifford Krauss, New York Times, 15 May 2023
• Russia needed the expertise of an oil giant like Exxon to extract the deepwater reserves.
  — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2018
• Declining costs for deepwater drilling projects could give OPEC another headache within a year and may prolong the global oil glut.
  — Luke Kawa, Bloomberg.com, 31 May 2017
• These companies are eager to search for untapped, deepwater fossil fuels by firing dozens of air cannons into the ocean, five or six times a minute, for months on end.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 6 July 2017
• The country’s only deepwater Arctic port was completed around the same time, so the wheat sent from Canadian farms by rail could be shipped to European markets.
  — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2017
• Lionfish thrive in many marine habitats, from mangroves and seagrass beds to deepwater reefs and shipwrecks.
  — Osmar J. Luiz, The Conversation, 1 June 2023
• As the world’s fish stocks decline and fleets stay at sea longer, workers aboard some deepwater Chinese squid ships face difficult living conditions that can lead to a fatal disease.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2023
• The key is to concentrate on deepwater structure and fish with live bait, either slowly trolling or drifting around humps and breaklines, usually right where the bottom begins to flatten out.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 13 June 2024
• The extra barrels that refiners needed flowed from extremely high-cost, deepwater wells in such locales Russian arctic and off the Brazil's Atlantic coast.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 30 Apr. 2020
• In part, that’s because scientists knew little about the habits of many deepwater marine mammals before the spill, so have trouble detecting changes from current data.
  — National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2020
• Russia has committed financial and military assets to the Arctic to stake its claim to the region's vast deepwater mineral, oil and gas deposits.
  — Ted Cruz, CNN, 29 May 2017
• Researchers in Australia recently discovered a new species of demon catshark – a dusky deepwater shark with striking white eyes – by following a trail of some odd-looking eggs.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2023
• The researchers concluded that constructing deepwater wind farms would not measurably slow the movement of this energy.
  — Gregory Brew, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2017
• Although tropical reef corals are the best known, scientists are increasingly finding cold and deepwater corals of various species and hues.
  — National Geographic, 21 Dec. 2016

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024