11.   A Spanish trawler accused of scouring the seas off South Africa with an enormous drift net was seized and escorted by fisheries officials to Cape Town harbor.

12.   A snowstorm forced them onto rough seas off Bainbridge Island, and C.W. Bandy, a Seattle lumberman, died as he tried to swim to shore for help.

13.   But the decision immediately touched off a fiery new round in the battle that erupted shortly after Elian was plucked from stormy seas off Miami on Thanksgiving Day.

14.   But the move immediately touched off a fiery round in the battle that erupted shortly after Elian was plucked from stormy seas off Miami on Thanksgiving Day.

15.   Critics said they had overlooked new technology that allows oil companies to drill in places such as the rough seas off Newfoundland.

16.   He told how several of the immigrants were injured trying to climb aboard the freighter from a fishing boat in rough seas off the coast of China.

17.   His body was found in rough seas off Sark.

18.   In the seas off the Cochin coast of southern India, the steady drone of motorized fishing boats is often interrupted by the ringing of mobile phones.

19.   It was the second suspected human smuggling vessel in less than a month apprehended on seas off the western province.

20.   Late Wednesday, the Coast Guard searched for a father and daughter whose small raft was blown out to sea off Cape San Blas in the Florida Panhandle.