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Input: Image copyright NZ Defence Force Image caption New Zealand's Air Force released this image of the survivors adrift in the Pacific 
  
 Eight survivors from a ferry missing in the Kiribati archipelago have been rescued in the Pacific Ocean. 
  
 The MV Butiraoi went missing nearly two weeks ago with 50 people on board. 
  
 The eight people were picked up by a fishing boat after they were spotted from air in a small dinghy, the New Zealand Defence Force said. 
  
 Search operations continued on Monday with rescuers saying there may yet be more survivors out at sea. 
  
 New Zealand and Fiji are among the countries assisting in the search and rescue operation. 
  
 A New Zealand military plane had found the 5m (16ft) dinghy adrift on Sunday morning. The New Zealand Defence Force had initially given the number of survivors on board as seven. 
  
 The crew had airdropped essential supplies and radio equipment to the survivors. Later on Sunday, the group were picked up by a fishing vessel. 
  
 John Ashby, from the New Zealand Rescue Coordination Centre, said the dinghy was one of two believed to have been carried by the MV Butiraoi. 
  
 "The group seem very relieved to have been found," he added, noting that sea conditions were "moderate to rough". 
  
 No further details about the fate of the 17.5m (57ft) wooden catamaran or its other passengers were given. 
  
 Image caption The ferry left the island of Nonouti ahead of a 260km (160 miles) journey to Betio. 
  
 The Butiraoi left Nonouti Island on 18 January on a 250km (155 mile) journey to the island of Betio, a journey which was expected to take two days. 
  
 The vessel had undergone repairs to its propeller shaft just before the journey. 
  
 After a week with no sign of the boat, New Zealand began offering assistance. 
  
 "We are always ready to play our part at home and in the region to help those in need," it said in a statement at the start of its involvement. 
  
 The 33 atolls that make up Kiribati occupy a vast area in the equatorial Pacific. 
  
 Many of the atolls are inhabited; most of them are very low-lying and at risk from rising sea levels as a result of global warming. ||||| Up to 100 people are feared to have been on Pacific island vessel when it capsized 
  
 Australian and American rescue teams have joined the search for survivors from the Kiribati ferry that capsized in the central Pacific more than a week ago. 
  
 It was initially estimated that around 50 people were onboard, but according to Kiribati’s president, Taneti Mamau, up to 100 people may have been passengers. 
  
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 The president declared a week of prayer in the hope that more survivors would be found as rescue efforts were stepped up, RNZ reported. 
  
 Aircraft from Australia and the US Coast Guard will join the search for the MV Butiraoi and its passengers, seven of whom were rescued from a wooden dingy on Sunday after scrambling aboard the flimsy vessel after the ferry sank. 
  
 A search and rescue aircraft from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority will start searching west of Kiribati on Monday, while the US Coast Guard’s C-130 Hercules will arrive on Tuesday. 
  
 The rescue effort is being run from Fiji by New Zealand’s rescue coordination centre, more than 2,000km south-west of Kiribati, which has a population of around 100,000. 
  
 Greg Johnston, senior search and rescue officer with the coordination centre, said a New Zealand air force P-3 Orion aircraft had spent all day Monday searching an area bigger than the whole of New Zealand – 385,000 sq km. 
  
 The remoteness of the search area, which lies 800km west of Kiribati, was adding to the challenge of the rescue effort, Johnston said. 
  
 A Kiribati marine patrol boat with medical personnel was en route to the FV Lomalo, the fishing boat which picked up the seven survivors on Sunday. 
  
 The survivors on the dinghy were reported to be in “reasonable health” despite spending more than a week at sea without water, an engine, or a radio to call for help. 
  
 Three men – two in their 20s and one aged 34 – and four females – three in their 20s and one aged 14 – were found on the basic wooden dingy. 
  
 A New Zealand airforce Orion dropped emergency supplies of food, water and a radio from the air on Sunday, after spotting them 180km from the nearest major island. 
  
 Butiraoi, an inter-island passenger ferry, left Nonouti Island on 18 January for a two-day, 250km trip to Betio, the largest township of Kiribati’s capital city, South Tarawa. The 17-metre wooden catamaran failed to arrive as scheduled on 20 January. 
  
 Local authorities said the boat had run aground and undergone repairs to its propeller shaft before it left Nonouti. It has a high frequency radio but it is not known whether it had enough fuel and emergency supplies on board. ||||| WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Searchers examined an expanding zone of the Pacific Ocean around the islands of Kiribati on Monday in hopes of finding more survivors of a ferry sinking after rescuers found seven passengers alive on an aluminum dinghy following more than a week at sea. 
  
 The 56-foot wooden catamaran that vanished on Jan. 18 was believed to have been carrying at least 50 other passengers. On Friday, the New Zealand authorities were first alerted by the government of Kiribati — which is about halfway between Hawaii and Australia — that the vessel had vanished after leaving for what was supposed to be a two-day, 150-mile voyage. 
  
 New Zealand’s military joined the search the next day, and rescued seven people, including a 14-year-old girl, on the small dinghy. A spokesman for the operation said the group had survived “in the baking sun” for more than a week without supplies, shade or a motor for the dinghy. 
  
 Air Commodore Darryn Webb said Monday that the seven survivors were still on the fishing boat that had rescued them, because New Zealand’s military needed it to stay in the area in case more survivors were spotted during an air search. |||||
Output:
A search and rescue operation is heating up in the Pacific Ocean near Kiribati, where passengers from a missing ferry were discovered Sunday. The 56-foot MV Butiraoi ferry was carrying at least 50 people, and perhaps 100, when it departed on a two-day, 150-mile trip from Nonouti to the island of Betio on Jan. 18, reports the BBC. It didn't arrive as scheduled and, for unknown reasons, New Zealand's military—which is responsible for patrolling the area in question—wasn't notified until a week later, reports the New York Times. An air search began on Saturday, and seven passengers—including a 14-year-old girl—were found floating in a 16-foot aluminum dinghy on Sunday, a search spokesman tells the Times. The BBC counts the number of survivors at eight. An air commodore says the survivors are "pretty dehydrated" after a week "in the baking sun." The Guardian notes they didn't have water. Picked up by a fishing boat more than 100 miles from the nearest major island, they reportedly said the ferry split in two and sank; the vessel underwent repairs to a propeller shaft before departing after it ran aground on an atoll. Still, officials are optimistic that more survivors may be found. Kiribati's president, Taneti Maamau, says 100 people might've been on board the ferry, which had two dinghies, per the New Zealand Herald. Australian and American rescue teams are now en route to help search a 200,000-square-mile area 500 miles west of Kiribati, a country made up of 33 atolls located halfway between Hawaii and Australia, per the Guardian.