title: Shoal (disambiguation)
text: # Shoal (disambiguation)
  
  A shoal is a sandbank or reef creating shallow water, especially where it forms a hazard to shipping.
  
  Shoal, shoals or shoaling may also refer to:
  
  ## Locations
  
  * The Shoals, a region in northwest Alabama, United States
  * Shoals, Indiana, a town in the United States
  
  ## Science
  
  * Wave shoaling, the change of wave height for sea waves propagating into shallow water
  * Shoaling and schooling, ways that fish and other aquatic animals behave when in large groups
  
  ## Other
  
  * Project Shoal, an underground nuclear test
  * Project Shoal (software), a java based scalable dynamic clustering framework.
  * Shoal draught (or draft), of a boat with shallow draught which can pass over some shoals: see Draft (hull)
  