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Two and a half weeks after the disappearance of a ferry in the Pacific Ocean, the search for possible survivors has stopped.

The ferry that disappeared in the island state of Kiribati probably did not have fifty but a hundred passengers on board. President Taneti Mamau said on Monday that there were probably twice as many passengers on the wooden catamaran as had been assumed until now, reported Australian media.

Seven crewmembers of a ferry disappeared in the Pacific were found in a lifeboat by the crew of a plane of the New Zealand Air Force and were brought on board of a fishing boat on Sunday.

A ferry is being sought on the Pacific near Kiribati. The wooden catamaran has been missing for a week. It is estimated that there are fifty people on board.

A helicopter pilot in the Marshall Islands searched for tuna, has saved the lives of three fishermen and a boy holding hundreds of kilometers were driven off. This was reported Radio New Zealand on Thursday. Warned the crew of a large fishing boat picked up the four.

Tonga and Samoa in Polynesian Triangle and Kiribati in the Pacific were the first places in the world where they could welcome 2017. And Australia has already ushered in the new year and have seven tons of fireworks.

In the Netherlands it is not so far, but on the other side of the world, the new year has begun. The first places in 2016 has been kicked his Kiribati, Samoa, Tonga and Tokelau in the Pacific.