1.   When the fisherman spotted the boat, its crew were already close to death.

2.   Gardai launched a full scale search for the men when their empty boat was spotted adrift in the water on Friday night.

3.   He said that he and five others spotted a boat whose crew had gone ashore to eat.

4.   In a blink, he had spotted a boat his younger officers had not.

5.   The fish advanced to within my sight, but they spotted the boat and scooted off.

6.   Yaari said the boat was spotted and stopped Saturday by an Israeli vessel on routine patrol off the northern coast of Israel near its border with Lebanon.

7.   A Civil Air Patrol airplane spotted the boat Thursday and notified the Coast Guard, which sent the cutter Vashon to intercept the vessel.

8.   A Civil Air Patrol airplane spotted the boat Thursday and notified the Coast Guard, which sent the cutter Vashon to intercept the vessel, Grapengeter said.

9.   Anti-drug police in a helicopter spotted the boat near Grand Bahama Island and began chasing it, said acting police Superintendent Hendrick Nairn.