1.   Fliers sometimes carry the cameras for intelligence gathering, according to Marine officials, but pilots acknowledge that they sometimes use the tapes to impress friends.

2.   Marine officials, however, estimate that the vast majorities of lifeguard rescues are caused by rip currents.

3.   The public should urge MacDonald and other marine officials to consider higher levels of protections in Stellwagen Bank and other sensitive areas of the Gulf of Maine.

4.   The ruling incensed senior Marine officials.

5.   A Cypriot-registered cargo ship has run aground in the mouth of the River Shannon on the west coast of Ireland, a marine official said Sunday.

6.   Airport authorities were unreachable by telephone, and local marine officials refused all comment.

7.   Airport authorities were unreachable by telephone and local marine officials refused all comment.

8.   All four were exhausted but could talk and have been hospitalized for observation in the state capital of Kuching, Abdul, the marine official, said.

9.   Bakkar-Poe said Marine officials remain confident that the Osprey is safe and hoped to release a preliminary cause of the crash in the next week or two.

10.   But local marine officials claim to have limited the catch, saying there is no clear evidence the starfish pose a threat to the coral.