71.   Last month at least two illegal immigrants drowned in rough seas off the island of Naxos when a wooden fishing boat they were aboard sank in rough seas.

72.   Many have drowned over the past four years when their wooden boats capsized.

73.   Most use small wooden boats to make the often hazardous journey across the Strait of Gibraltar which separates Spain from Morocco.

74.   More than three dozen people were feared drowned after a wooden boat capsized in Lake Victoria, police said Saturday.

75.   Mostly from the Middle East, and increasingly from Afghanistan, they arrive via Indonesia in small, usually rickety wooden fishing boats hired by people smugglers.

76.   Most attempt the crossing in crude wooden boats at night.

77.   On Monday, a boat from the aircraft carrier USS Constellation rescued two Iranian seamen clinging to debris of their wooden boat.

78.   On another tributary, the Shennong Creek, eight Taiwanese tourists and three boatmen were killed when a small wooden boat overturned in April.

79.   On Sunday, six armed captors in two wooden fishing boats abducted the hostages and fled along this very route to similar islands in the southern Philippines.

80.   One survivor told ANSA in Vlora that the dinghy collided with a small wooden boat returning nearly empty from a people-smuggling run to Italy.