1.   Their inexperience and greed prompt them to overload boats or attempt treacherous seas.

2.   Police were trying to determine whether the boat was overloaded.

3.   But the attempt planned around the millennium celebrations was aborted when the attackers discovered their boat had been overloaded with explosives and was not seaworthy, the official said.

4.   It was aborted when the attackers discovered their boat had been overloaded with explosives and was not seaworthy, the official said.

5.   Preliminary investigations indicated the boat was overloaded, it said.

6.   Survivors disagreed, saying the boat was heavily overloaded.

7.   Survivors told Red Cross workers that the boat was badly overloaded with commercial goods and that they had pleaded with the captain to turn back.

8.   Survivors told Red Cross workers that the boat was badly overloaded with commercial goods and passengers and that they had pleaded with the captain to turn back.

9.   The accident was apparently the result of overloading the boat with people and cargo, witnesses were quoted as saying.

10.   The boat was overloaded on its weekly trip from the capital Freetown to neighboring Guinea.