31.   Several dozen brightly colored boats carrying hundreds of sightseers from the town of Palembang, two hours away by river, bobbed about as rescue teams worked.

32.   Survivors said the boat was carrying passengers from Malabo in Equatorial Guinea, to Calabar, Nigeria.

33.   The boat sent Sunday carried six maintenance workers.

34.   The boat was carrying a wide variety of crabs and sea cucumbers.

35.   The boat was not carrying Liberian refugees, many of whom have fled by sea the fighting in their homeland southwest of Sierra Leone.

36.   The boat was not carrying Liberian refugees, many of whom have taken to the sea to flee the fighting in their homeland southwest of Sierra Leone.

37.   The boats carry food to Gonave Island and charcoal to the mainland and often are overloaded.

38.   The boats were carrying passengers returning from a market in Bukavu, on the border with Rwanda, to the islands of Nyamizi and Muhembe.

39.   The Belize-registered boat was apprehended after a U.S. Navy boat found reason to believe the boat was carrying drugs.

40.   The boat normally carries about one dozen Navy SEAL commandos, Bacon said.