Lazaro Gonzalez is Elian's great uncle and had taken care of the boy at his Little Havana home in Miami from his rescueatsea last Thanksgiving day until INS agents removed him from the house in a Saturday morning raid April 22.
The first would allow American forces to use civilian airports and harbours in Japan and to rely on Japanese minesweeping and search-and-rescue operations atsea.
"Radio and other forms of communication from ships atsea remain unaffected, " Peter Dymond, head of Search and Rescue, said in a statement on the Coastguard's Web site.
Yet here, too, personal and political interact: Herzen must struggle to rescue his ideals from the wreckage of events in the same year as an accident atsea drowns his wife and son.
Weymouth lifeboat volunteers were atsea for 2, 981 hours - mainly due to increased search and rescue cover during the 2012 Olympic sailing events, the organisation said.