Search Suspended for Missing Mass. Boat
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By JESSE HARLAN ALDERMAN  BOSTON - Two fishermen were presumed dead Friday after the Coast Guard suspended its search for their vessel off the coast of Maine.
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(InfoWorld) - The U.S. Coast Guard is conducting an extensive search for Jim Gray, a senior manager with Microsoft's Silicon Valley research organization, who failed to return from a sailboating trip Sunday off of San Francisco. The Coast Guard said Tuesday that it was continuing to search 4,000 square miles of Pacific Ocean between San Francisco and the Farallon Islands, where Gray was reportedly headed in his 40-foot sailboat Tenacious Sunday morning. He was reported missing by his wife that evening when he failed to return to their home in San Francisco as expected. Gray, 63, was hired in 1995 to run Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center, also based in San Francisco, where he researches databases and transaction processing systems, according to a biography of him on a Microsoft Web site. His particular focus is on using computers to make scientists more productive in the fields of astronomy, geography, hydrology, oceanography, biology, and health care, the site explains. Gray, who has also worked at such technology companies as IBM, Tandem Computers, and Digital Equipment, won the ACM Turing Award in 1998 for his work on transaction processing. The Coast Guard said it has deployed a C-130 fixed-wing aircraft, an HH-65 Dolphin helicopter, three 87-foot coastal patrol boats, and other equipment to continue the search. It has been assisted by the Alameda County (California) Sheriff's Office. No signs of Gray or the vessel have been found, the Coast Guard said. The phone at the eScience Group's office went unanswered when IDG News Service called for comment.
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A second search operation continues for the skipper of a fishing vessel, missing off the Dorset coast.
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Boat fishermen who survived last weekend sitting ashore may find a very different picture after the remnants of Hurricane Ivan. Some managed to get out on Boston Harbor and Nantucket Sound.
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By Stowe, Gene  Winter weather has delayed the boating season by about three weeks, says Don Daly, who owns Eagle Lake Marine in Edwardsburg with his wife Charmayne.
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A group that had been fruitlessly searching at sea for missing California scientist Jim Gray has officially called off its search.  The Los Angeles Times said the group, made up of Gray's friends, had joined the U.S.
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Detectives examine material from the hull of a ferry after a yacht with three crew disappeared in the English Channel.
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Authorities are investigating the disappearance of an Ohio woman who was reported missing Monday from a Carnival Cruise Lines ship.
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One of two fishermen missing in the Irish Sea was found alive today. The missing crewman, Shane Murnaghan, was found floating in a life-raft nine miles from the Isle of Man - inside the area where a major ...
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The search for two people last seen on a makeshift raft in the sea near Hastings pier is called off for the night.
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Police in south Florida are searching hundreds of canals and a huge area of wetlands for a car that could provide vital clues in the case of a young woman who vanished three weeks ago.
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The Coast Guard called off a search Sunday for a cruise ship passenger believed to have fallen overboard.
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A boat adrift in the Mediterranean with at least 53 immigrants on board is missing off Malta, aid officials say.
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A search is launched after a yacht was found empty with its engine running off the coast of Cornwall.
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The Coast Guard suspended its search for six people lost for three days in the frigid Bering Sea after the crash of a rescue helicopter that had plucked them from a broken freighter.
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By JESSICA VAN SACK  NEW BEDFORD - A stoic vigil by families waiting for word on the fishermen lost in the frigid sea off Nantucket erupted into tears and wails of grief yesterday as they got the call they dreaded: At least one body has been recovered from the sunken Lady of Grace.
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A retired couple who had been living on a boat along the Southern California coast have been missing for weeks, and police are trying to determine if the disappearance is related to a man who recently bought their cabin cruiser.