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Search for missing crew member launched

The Coast Guard on Oct 17, 2012, was searching for a missing 26-year-old Turkish crewmember of the "Aqua" approximately 230 miles south of New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico. The second mate was last seen walking the deck of the vessel, wearing a green and brown shirt with no life jacket. He was reported missing after he did not report for his watch. The Coast Guard was searching for the missing crewmember with an HC-144 Ocean Sentry crew from Coast Guard Aviation Training Center Mobile, Ala., and an HC-130 Hercules airplane crew from Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, Fla. The "Aqua" has also returned to the last known position the crewmember was aboard to assist in the search. The current weather in the search area was reported to be winds of 10 mph with three-foot seas.

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Italian oil firm Eni has booked a crude oil tanker loaded from its fields in west Libya to Italy, becoming the first shipment from Gaddafi-held territory in weeks, an industry source said on Thursday. The source said the tanker Aqua had been booked to load the crude oil from a port near Tripoli.

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Venezuelan National Guardians and officers of the Drugs Control Agency ONA arrested the “Aqua” and its 23 Turkish crew, after they said to have found 116 kilograms of cocaine in the engine room, on Feb 20, 2010.