1.   The distress flares were spotted by another ship.

2.   But can doctors use these distress flares as warnings of disease or illness?

3.   To hundreds of others who saw it Wednesday night, it looked like a shooting star, a distress flare, a meteor, a ball of fire.

4.   Some demonstrators started pelting police with bottles, cans, wood, paint, a smoke bomb and distress flares.

5.   The Greenpeace inflatable boat was equipped with enough provisions for a month, as well as communications equipment, anti-radiation suits and distress flares.

6.   The Greenpeace inflatable was equipped with enough provisions for a month, as well as communications equipment, anti-radiation suits and distress flares.

7.   They set off distress flares which were spotted by residents on shore.

8.   An orange smoke bomb was thrown into the street and distress flares let off as hundreds of protesters harangued police standing behind barriers.

9.   An earlier chase near Heard Island in December had to be abandoned after two weeks when the navy had to respond to a distress flare.

10.   As the vessel approached the rocks, the crew activated an emergency signal and launched distress flares.