The flight in dangerously overcrowded boats began long before the fall of the 29-year Duvalier family dictatorship in 1986.

They often risk their lives on dangerously crude and overcrowded boats to escape oppression or poverty in their home nations.

If the policy is thrown out, the tide of refugees taking to open waters in rickety, overcrowded boats could resume, officials said.

She drowned when their overcrowded boat went down somewhere between here and Hong Kong.

Seventy people, on an excursion up the Volga River, drowned when an overcrowded boat overturned at Yaroslavl.

Königsmarck succeeded with great difficulty to escape, but many overcrowded boats sank during the crossing.

The bay is full of fugitive's overcrowded boats, some sinking.

On July 27, 2002, twenty-nine people were killed when an overcrowded boat capsized in the Vembanad lake.

Avoid travel on overcrowded boats and ensure that proper safety equipment (including life preservers) is available before boarding any boat or ferry.

Most of the boat people left Vietnam in decrepit, leaky, overcrowded boats.