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To: kumar who wrote (93698)	1/4/2005 10:22:07 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793731

Do you have a link for that...I haven't seen any article saying anything about India, and would really like to....In fact, didn't know India had aircraft carriers....

To: kumar who wrote (93698)	1/5/2005 3:34:12 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793731

Hi kumar....Did find a couple of links that spoke of Indian ships in the tsunami regions....no aircraft carriers, but certainly ships. From the looks of all the places of disaster, there certainly is a need for ships, planes, and helicopters. Saw tonight that the US is planning on sending 50% MORE helicopters than we already have sent...total should be 90... Also, one of the articles said that it costs the US $2.5 Million a DAY to use the USS Lincoln for humanitarian use. (See Google news search) British, US, Canadian aid ships arrive dailynews.lk by Ranil Wijayapala The British, US and Canadian ships carrying equipment especially for reconstruction work in the tsunami hit areas in the country started arriving Sri Lanka yesterday, Navy Spokesman Commodore Jayantha Perera told the Daily News yesterday. He said the British ship HMS Chatham had already arrived at the Colombo port and another British ship is due soon. According to US Embassy sources in Colombo, 42 US marines arrived at the Katunayake international airport yesterday. According to sources more than 1200 US marines are due to arrive in Sri Lanka to help Sri Lanka on the reconstruction effort. The Canadian Government has also informed the Government that they will also send two ships with equipment to facilitate the reconstruction work in Sri Lanka, Commodore Perera added. The Indian Government has already sent 10 ship loads of relief assistance, medical teams and more than 1000 troops to assist the tsunami victims in all parts of the country. The Indian ships are now anchored at Colombo, Galle and Trincomalee ports. The Indian ships with a 40 bed field hospital also arrived in the country to help the victims. Two Bangladeshi navy ships and Pakistani naval ships with 500 troops are also scheduled to arrive within the next few days, Commodore Perera added. 8888888888888888888888888888 Indian ships clear devatated Galle port Kochi, Jan 5, 2005 keralaonline.com Two Indian Naval vessels today became the first ships to enter Sri Lanka's tsunami devastated Galle port, which had remained closed, since the killer waves destroyed the busy Port on December 26 by blocking its channels with sunken trawlers, boats and other underwater obstacles. Naval Survey Ship INS Sarvekshak and INS Sutlej of the Southern Naval Command, which reached Galle on December 27 were received at the port this morning by Sri Lanka's Southern Naval Area Commander Rear Admiral Wasantha Tenakoon and Indian Assistant High Commissioner in Sri Lanka, Rajan Pillai. Two jetties of the harbour had now been cleared for ships drawing upto 6.5 metres, an official spokesman of the Southern Naval Command said here. INS Sutlej had carried out survey of the harbour entrance and its channel, while the 25-member Indian Naval divers cleared its underwater obstacles, including a large number of fibre glass boats which had sunk under the impact of the high pressure waves, making the port channel navigable, the spokesman said. The medical teams had been attending on patients. Indian Army engineers, who also joined the Naval team from here, were busy restoring water and power supply, while the Army Signal team undertook restoration of telecom network in the area. Electricity to the harbour in Galle had been restored, the spokesman added [Agency]