1.   Hydraulic lifting equipment was rushed to the scene and the animal was hauled to safety and housed in nearby stables until its owner was traced.

2.   Mr Templeton said that at the time there had been no lifting equipment there.

3.   Mascharka said improved lifting equipment, some of it developed in Europe, had made the more vertical operations practical in recent years.

4.   The only other car with similar lifting equipment will be used for the Progress, he said.

5.   Hundreds of cranes and lifting equipment remain immobilised at the port and on two large man-made islands, Port Island and Rokko Island.