Mourning a son of the sea
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There were a few brave early-morning swimmers and sunbathers, but West Beach largely belonged to the friends and family of Nick Peterson.
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In Quezon province, hit earlier this week by a typhoon, relatives were looking for loved ones when second storm hit. BY PAT ROQUE.
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A father and his two-year-son old whose bodies were found separately in the English Channel both died from drowning, police said today.
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HALIFAX - Family members, politicians and military brass held a ceremony for Lieut. Chris Saunders in Halifax Sunday afternoon, after the submariner&#39;s body arrived from Ireland.
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The death of Yasser Arafat brought mixed reactions from Seattle Palestinians last night, with one man comparing it to the loss of a father, and others saying they felt no sadness.
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Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik has announced that Saturday, January 1st, will be an official Day of Mourning, for the victims of the tidal wave disaster in southeast Asia, Norwegian Broadcasting ...
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The ashes of Mahatma Gandhi are scattered in the sea on the 60th anniversary of his assassination.
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A family waiting for news of a man missing in Thailand in the wake of the tsunami are told his body has been found.
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NEW YORK - Two relatives of Mariano Rivera were killed in an electrified swimming pool at his Panama mansion - dealing the ace reliever a double tragedy on the eve of the Yankees&#39; playoff series against the Boston Red Sox.
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Volunteers gather to help search for a boy whose sister, parents and grandfather died trying to escape flooding.
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NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Dec. 21 -- Even by the hard-bitten standard of the livelihood they chose, it was a cruel time and place to be lost at sea, tossed in the heaving, frigid swells, a few days before Christmas.
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DALLAS -- When Patty Jacobs's 33-year-old son, Jeff, died in a boating accident in March, she was thrust into a major and immediate financial decision that most Americans are unprepared for -- purchasing funeral services.
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A memorial service will be held near the Faslane naval base today for the sailor who died on the stricken Canadian submarine the Chicoutimi.
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SLIGO, Ireland - As Denis Lafleur prepared to return to Canada later today, his heart went out to the family of his fallen comrade, who did not survive last week&#39;s fire on their submarine, as well as his fellow crew still at sea.
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Colleagues and crew men wept as they paid their respects to the &quot;excellent&quot; officer who was a victim of the fire on board a Canadian submarine.
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By TARA BRAUTIGAM  ST. JOHN'S, N.L. (CP) - As Michael Petten stood on the deck of a fishing vessel engulfed in flames, staring at the icy North Atlantic, he faced a simple, awful dilemma: burn or freeze to death.
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GREYTOWN, Nicaragua  - Resting his work-worn hands  on a marble headstone, Nicaraguan caretaker Charly Thomas  points to the epitaph of an American sailor who died in the  Caribbean port of Greytown in the 1850s.