Three helicopters and 11 rescue boats were part of the joint operation, the rescue service said.
The armada of rescue boats and helicopters were visible from the roadway.
According to documents obtained by NPR, they were paying full price for such things as inflatable rescue boats, and most of the purchases were made outside the normal bidding process.
France and Britain are talking separately about whether it may be possible to send boats to rescue people who remain trapped on beaches in north-eastern Sri Lanka.
Rescue workers on rubber boats could not reach them because of narrow alleyways, and two air force helicopters were deployed to drop water and food packs to the marooned villagers, the Associated Press reports.
Theodore and his crew worked to rescue men from the stricken boats, but 22 vessels sank and 35 men were drowned.
Mr Gerrard, the master of the fishing smack 'Busy', was killed at Burton Bradstock while attempting to rescue the crew of fishing boats being driven ashore in a heavy gale.
The U.S. Coast Guard, the Volusia County Beach Patrol and the sheriff's office immediately launched a search-and-rescue mission using helicopters, boats and personal watercraft to try to find the Winter Park, Florida, father and son.
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And all night long, nearly two dozen rescue workers have been riding the boats up and down these lanes and pulling out people from their homes.
Indonesia's search and rescue agency, Basarnas, sent two boats and a helicopter to the area but initially found nothing.
After more than 18 hours at sea, with fuel and supplies running short and no land in sight, the boat's captain called a priest, who contacted the Italian maritime rescue service, which in turn alerted boats in the area, the report said.
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Most of the boats here were destroyed so the rescue effort is still continuing.
For these jobs, Mr Adair used support-and-rescue ships and semi-submersible fire-boats all of his own design.
Three boats from the Royal Dutch Sea Rescue Organisation, two navy vessels, four helicopters and one coastguard aircraft had been used in the rescue operation.
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Mr Vlasto said the coasts of the south west of England and Wales were "by far the busiest" rescue areas because of the number of leisure boats based around those areas.
City officials, for example, want to replace metal boats used by NYPD search-and-rescue teams with inflatable ones, after first-responders were forced to dodge downed power lines as they searched for New Yorkers stranded in floodwaters last fall.
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