41.   Still churning in the northern Atlantic, hundreds of miles off Newfoundland, was Hurricane Alberto, the longest-lived August tropical storm on record.

42.   That belief took searches to an area dozens of miles off the original course of the Dakar.

43.   The island is part of the Dodecanese chain, some of which lie just several miles off the Turkish coast.

44.   The Guardian said Rudge and his crew were stuck several hundred miles off the southern English coast with virtually zero chance of landing in time for the annual meeting.

45.   The group was rescued Friday by the U.S. Coast Guard about seven miles off Miami after their aluminum boat was spotted by a freighter.

46.   The men anchored the boat about four miles off Portland Point.

47.   The men, wearing survival suits, managed to get into a lifeboat but the lifeboat capsized about a mile off Cape Beale, near Bamfield.

48.   The navy received a distress signal from the vessel late Tuesday and boarded the ship Wednesday morning a few miles off shore.

49.   The ship, whose home port is Little Creek, Va., is cruising about a mile off the Egyptian coast.

50.   The tanker was offloading its oil, a mile off the coast, through a recently-installed pipeline when some spilled into the sea.