A small, flat fiberglass raft was all 10 oil workers had to escape the leveling winds and towering waves of Tropical Storm Nate as it pounded their disabled rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Capt.

In July 2003, a group of 12 Cubans set sail for the United States in a fluorescent green retrofitted with 55-gallon oil drums for flotation ... Guard sent the truck-raft to the bottom of the ...