The Inner and Outer Dowsing sand banks are shallow-water shoals off the Lincolnshire coast of the UK sector of southern North Sea.
They have been used for navigation, as a commercial fishery, for aggregate dredging, and more recently as the location for major offshore wind farms.
[1] The Inner Dowsing sandbank comprises coarse sand with areas of gravel, its elongated shape is maintained by the tidal currents.
[1] Around the Outer Dowsing area commercially important fish include whiting, dab, sprat, herring, plaice, mackerel and lemon sole.
[2] The Triton Knoll wind farm is located immediately west of the Outer Dowsing Channel.
This was a four-leg steel structure formerly belonging to the National Coal Board where it had been used to undertake prospective drilling for natural gas in the North Sea.
[14] It also had a Horn (2) 60 s. In 2020 the owners Perenco stated its intention to decommission the Amethyst field and to remove all the platforms, including B1D.
[15] Today the Inner and Outer Dowsing sand banks are marked with a number of buoys as aids to navigation.