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When they eventually arrive, they will have to navigate through a narrow gap created in the atoll's reef by the British in 1963 - the last time the island was inhabited.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Hike from ridge to reef Mason’s Travel tour company leads a guided hike through Mahé’s lush Morne Seychellois National Park to secluded Anse Major beach, followed by snorkeling at Cap Ternay Marine Park.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Others are placed onto table frames fixed to the ocean floor, and yet others are mounted onto plugs, screwed into a three-hole "cookie" and planted onto the reef.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

It can also help reconstruct the ecology of early Paleozoic oceans, when crinoids were among many early animal groups flourishing in reef ecosystems.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026

The waves rumbled onto the reef and mumbled across the sand.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr

As coral reefs struggle to survive, many sharks are losing their main food source, but humans are to blame for that one.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

Viewers are taken into some of the world's least understood marine environments, ranging from coral reefs and tropical islands to the darkest depths of the ocean.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Bowden-Kerby urged visiting Australians to see the dead reefs for themselves.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

Scientists say additional surveys may reveal more reefs elsewhere in the surrounding area.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

There is a tiny curved beach in front of the station, a miniature beach between little reefs.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

John Hocevar, its head of ocean campaigns, concedes that in some locations reefed platforms, if non-toxic, may increase marine life.

From Economist ● Jun. 12, 2014

Currently, less than a tenth of America’s old oil and gas platforms are reefed.

From Economist ● Jun. 12, 2014

Not one platform off California has been reefed.

From Economist ● Jun. 12, 2014

Under reefed capital sail C. & E. I. bad a good chance to operate at a profit.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was a sailboat with rusty red sails reefed around the booms of the fore and aft masts.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos

Part of that action is Patten’s realization that the sailor’s standard storm tactics—including reefing, heaving-to and lying a-hull—will not work in such an intense blow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025

Operators typically favour reefing but it is not always economical or allowed, says David Welch of Stone Energy Corporation.

From Economist ● Jun. 12, 2014

For now, the evidence suggests that reefing is a rare policy.

From Economist ● Jun. 12, 2014

What Dean likes most about the design are the space, comfort and the simple single-line reefing system, which Nautor first perfected on his Swan 44.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Me fall off of a house! Me that’s hung by my eyebrows, reefing sail in a storm! Fix me up good, Doc, so I can be ready when the Putnam sails.”

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham