The heavy seas brought by Esther made search-and-rescue efforts difficult.

But he said that with conflicting information being received about the fate of the pilot, a search-and-rescue effort was continuing.

Certainly, your work has exposed you to search-and-rescue efforts, to bloodhounds.

The storm was making it impossible to coordinate search-and-rescue efforts.

However, search-and-rescue efforts persisted for several days, with local fishermen assisting the navy.

He said the number of helicopters devoted to the search-and-rescue efforts had grown to 80 by Monday.

They assumed it must have been part of the search-and-rescue efforts in the tunnel and had somehow lost its way.

"Our immediate concern is a search-and-rescue effort, not affixing responsibility."

Kirk had spent the last half hour coordinating search-and-rescue efforts and talking with survivors.

Come daylight, of course, they would summon volunteers, get the full search-and-rescue effort grinding.