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Maluku Islands, Indonesia: Boat sinks/ 58 people still missing

Fifty-eight people are still missing after a wooden boat sank off eastern Indonesia two days ago. Fifty-eight people are still missing after a wooden boat sank off eastern Indonesia two days ago. Read article

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Hillesoy, Norwegian: Canadian tourist used smoke signal to call for help

A Canadian tourist who broke his foot on a remote Norwegian island used smoke signals to call for his rescue. However, he accidentally set a large part of the island on fire, reports News.com.au. Read article

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Indonesia: High waves/ 14 people missing

Rescuers were scouring the ocean off eastern Indonesia on Sunday after 14 people went missing in high waves, police said according to a local newspaper. The boat was carrying 27 people to the island of Buru when it capsized after being hit by a 3-meter-high (10-foot-high) wave, local police official Zet Riry told The Jakarta […]

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Tonga: Australian yachtsman may be stranded

Ian Thompson, a veteran seaman in his 60s, and an unnamedAustralian yachtsman have been missing since an emergency call was made to a relative from the yacht, Navillus, on Thursday night. Air and sea search teams found the wreckage of the yacht, including an un-deployed life raft and the hull, near the island of Late, […]

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Galapagos Islands: lost tourist found alive

Drinking liquid cactus and eating insects survived for five days lost hiker Chilean Felipe Bravo, who today was found alive by rescuers Ecuador in the Galapagos Islands. Bravo had disappeared without a trace last Monday in Santa Cruz Island, when he moved alone, unaccompanied by a guide, mount the Puntudo sector, about 800 meters. Dr. […]

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Search continues for lost tourist on the Galapagos Islands

More than 65 people, a helicopter, search dogs and two boats are on the search operation of the tourist Chilean Felipe Bravo, who disappeared last Monday in the highlands of Santa Cruz in the heart of the Ecuadorian Galapagos archipelago. This was announced on Friday the address of the Galapagos National Park (GNP), which coordinates […]

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Chilean tourist missing on Galapagos Islands

Chile’s Felipe Bravo, 28, was last seen on Monday June 11 at a restaurant in Bellavista in Santa Cruz Island, where his intention was frustrated because the lunch food was not ready. A taxi driver who transported the hiker said the young man had intended to go to Half Moon and Puntudo. Read Article

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Phang Nga,Thailand: Egyptian tourist missing in flash flood

PHANGNGA, June 10 – Rescue workers are searching for an Egyptian tourist who went missing in a flash flood in Phangnga, while one police volunteer was injured in a storm-related incident in Trang. The tourist was whitewater rafting in the Klong Songphraek stream and went missing three days ago in the flash flood. Read article

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Thailand: Body of a missing Phuket tourist was discovered in Phang Nga

PHUKET: After three days of searching, rescue workers this morning found the body of a man who disappeared on Friday after a horrific whitewater rafting accident in Phang Nga, north of Phuket. The Egyptian Embassy named the man as Hossamellein Mostafa Abdallas Hamada, 24, and confirmed to the Phuket Gazette today that the family had […]

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Dubai: Family worries about Navy Sailor who went missing 10 days ago

Leading Seaman Timothy MacColl, 27, from Gosport, Hampshire, was last seen by a shipmate getting into a taxi in the early hours of May 27 after a night out. The sailor, originally from Killin in Stirlingshire, had arrived in Dubai on HMS Westminster only the day before, and had just left the Rock Bottom Bar […]

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