1.   Acting Navy Chief Onofre Marcelo said the navy sent a plane and a boat to join the search but did not find the tanker.

2.   Last year, the navy also sent a ship to take several thousand illegal Indonesian immigrants home.

3.   Last year, the Malaysian navy sent its officers to Germany, France, Italy, Turkey, Britain and the Netherlands to train in submarine operations.

4.   The Chilean navy sent a ship in the direction of the raft on Saturday after a plane had picked up its signal, organizers said.

5.   The British navy sent out relief expeditions.

6.   The French navy also is sending a ship loaded with construction materials, trucks and equipment to help reopen communication lines.

7.   The French navy also is sending a ship loaded with trucks and equipment to help reopen communication lines as well as construction materials.

8.   The navy has also sent reinforcements, he added.

9.   He said the search operation was called off Wednesday evening but the navy again sent a craft to the crash site.

10.   The navy sent a patrol boat to scatter the fishing boats, said Andre le Berre, president of the fisheries committee at the Brittany port of Guilvinec.