Merchant vessels which had been diverted to help the search had also stopped scanning the area.

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Inmarsat began life as a cooperative venture of 64 governments to provide satellite communications for ships (26% of the world's larger merchant vessels now use Inmarsat).

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And he did not dismiss Chester Nimitz after Admiral Yamamoto was shot down without a trial and Japanese merchant vessels were sunk in blatant disregard of Geneva conventions.

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