1.   But more often they are hit-and-run bandits in motorized dinghies who prey on fishermen, ferries, and yachtsmen, robbing them of any valuables aboard.

2.   Authorities were searching for the crew that apparently took off in a motorized dinghy and abandoned their passengers to the ship and dinghies without motors.

3.   Fifty illegal immigrants also were aboard the three motorized dinghies, ANSA said.

4.   He died when the motorized dinghy ran him over, the reports said.

5.   Many pay smugglers to take them across the Adriatic on rickety boats or motorized dinghies from Albania or northern Africa.

6.   Most are brought by smugglers in rickety boats or take to motorized dinghies to cross the Adriatic between Italy and Albania or the waters between Sicily and northern Africa.