A 16-year-old California girl who sent a distress signal while on a quest to sail around the world alone could be rescued Saturday from her yacht adrift in the Indian Ocean, the authorities said.
BEIJING -- An unmanned underwater vehicle will be deployed to look for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on the floor of the Indian Ocean, Australian authorities said Monday, and investigators have collected samples from an oil slick discovered in the search area.
"Since the U.S. Navy provided comment some days ago, the underwater search has been significantly narrowed through detailed acoustic analysis conducted on the four signal detections" made by the towed pinger locator on the Australian ship Ocean Shield, authorities said in a statement.
13 April Rocket is launched from Tongchang-ri and appears to have disintegrated soon after blastoff and fallen into the ocean, South Korean authorities say.
At least three asylum seekers have drowned and more than 150 pulled from the ocean by Indonesian authorities after their boat sank on the way to Christmas Island.
When Tyrie asked the Foreign Office (FCO) to explain which government department keeps a list of flights which passed through Diego Garcia from January 2002 to January 2009, FCO minister Mark Simmonds replied: "Records on flight departures and arrivals on Diego Garcia are held by the British Indian Ocean Territory immigration authorities.
Stakeholders include federal and provincial departments, aboriginal communities, municipal and local planning authorities, ocean industry and resource use sectors, coastal communities, environmental interest groups, and university researchers.
The tsunami warning center said Wednesday, after issuing a tsunami watch for the Indian Ocean, that the local authorities were responsible for making their own assessments about a potential tsunami.
Australia is investigating two objects in the southern Indian Ocean, described by Malaysian authorities as a "credible lead".
His father, Professor Theodore Thompson Flynn, of Queen's College, Belfast, is an authority on ocean life and is at present engaged on research work at London University.
