21.   All the crew were later rescued by a Vietnamese fishing boat.

22.   American anti-drug workers braved rebel gunfire to help rescue the crew of a downed Colombian police helicopter during an anti-drug mission, police and a U.S. official said Wednesday.

23.   British and Italian helicopters rescued the crew of a merchant ship that foundered in bad weather off the coast of Sicily on Sunday.

24.   Iraq has accused the U.S. navy of sinking a tanker from which a Western naval force rescued the crew last week.

25.   Israeli air force and U.S. naval helicopters began to rescue the crew and transfer them to an American destroyer and an Israeli missile boat, he said.

26.   It took three hours to rescue the crew of the Greek Cypriot-registered Hyundai Seattle from the remote Aleutian Islands.

27.   It was adrift in the Pacific when the crew was rescued by the Norewegian merchant ship Joel.

28.   Just last month, U.S. civilian pilots flew into a firefight to rescue the crew of a downed Colombian police helicopter.

29.   Later, the Navy destroyer USS Russell arrived and launched a small vessel, known as a rigid hull inflatable boat, which rescued the crew.

30.   Maritime officials said the decision was made after repeated attempts to rescue the crew by helicopter failed overnight.