11. Police and bystanders rescued six passengers and pulled eight bodies from the river after the accident Friday evening. 12. A flotilla of lifeboats, fishing vessels and ferries responded to the distress call and rescued the passengers. 13. A Marine Corps helicopter went down in the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday while trying to rescue passengers from another helicopter crash. 14. A flotilla of lifeboats, fishing vessels and ferries responded to the mayday call and rescued the passengers. 15. A fourth passenger was rescued in a coma and is being treated in hospital. 16. A motorized outrigger canoe capsized off the Negros Occidental city of Bacolod at the height of the storm Saturday night, but all its six passengers were rescued. 17. An Almost Family staff member and a witness tried to rescue the passengers, Young said. 18. As the ship began to sink, Sesante called an aide on land using a cellular phone and asked him to contact people who could rescue the passengers. 19. Authorities rescued seven passengers but also found the bodies of two women and two children, he said, adding that the search was continuing. 20. Cotter said his grandfather, William, was a telegraph operator on the RMS Virginian, one of the ships that attempted to rescue passengers from the Titanic. |