Mexico to probe fishermen who survived epic voyage
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Three Mexican fishermen who survived nine months adrift in a small boat in the Pacific Ocean will now be investigated for possible links to drug trafficking, the government said on Tuesday.
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A Sumatran fisherman was discovered barely alive under his beached boat Sunday &#151; the first survivor found in three days &#151; but with tens of thousands still missing in crushed seaside settlements and in the flotsam washing the shores of the Indian Ocean rescuers turned full attention to getting food and water to the living.
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MONTERREY -- Mexico is demanding a formal investigation into the drowning deaths of three undocumented migrants who it said were forced to recross the Rio Grande by US Border Patrol agents who threw stones at the migrants. The Mexican consul in Eagle Pass, Texas, lodged a complaint with the Border Patrol this week after the three women migrants drowned in ...
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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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A whale caught off the Alaskan coast had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it had survived a similar hunt â more than a century ago.
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Mexico wants a full investigation by U.S. authorities on Friday into a shooting on the U.S. border that left three illegal migrants dead and two injured.
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Four fishermen rescued near the Marshall Islands after surviving 34 days adrift in the Pacific, said they were ignored by a passing fishing boat less than a week after being lost at sea.
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The bodies of two dozen people washed ashore Friday in southern Mexico, a state official said, after a boat believed to be carrying Central American migrants capsized in the Pacific Ocean.
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Archeologists said Monday that porcelain plates and other artifacts found along the Baja California coast could be from the wreckage of a Spanish galleon that sailed between the Philippines and Mexico hundreds of years ago.
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Family members of a 78-year-old California man found dead after his yacht ran aground in southern Mexico said Monday they tried to dissuade him from sailing solo halfway around the world, but to no avail.
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Rescuers scoured the seas off the Canary Islands Thursday for around 50 illegal immigrants who went missing after their vessel capsized as it was trying to reach the Spanish archipelago, emergency services said.
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A Spanish fishing boat that went missing in a brutal storm off northwest Scotland has been located, and its crew of 19 appears to be safe, the Royal Air Force and coastguard officials said.
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Four crew members were missing from a boat found adrift and two passengers, one of them a fugitive from Arkansas, were being questioned by federal authorities Tuesday after they were rescued in the Florida Straits near Cuba.
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Conservationists say the survival of Mongolia's fabled taimen salmon may depend on an unusual ecotourism venture involving Western anglers.
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A memorial service is to be held for the crew of the fishing boat Meridian which went down in the North Sea.
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Spanish police intercepted a ship belonging to US deep-sea explorer firm Odyssey on Thursday, officials said, in a row over a massive treasure haul recovered from a sunken wreck in the Atlantic.
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OSLO -- Nearly 60 years after Thor Heyerdahl sailed his Kon-Tiki balsa raft across the Pacific to prove a theory about ancient mariners, a team that includes his grandson plans to re-create the 101-day epic voyage to Tahiti -- although the craft will have solar panels, a satellite navigation system, and a link to the Internet.