A Government official, watching messages of support and condolence pour in from around the world, growled: "They're always sorry for us when we're victims.

And by eight o'clock messages were pouring over the ether: Admiralty to C-in-C.

Meanwhile messages were pouring in to the Nord Hvalstasjon.

She called so loudly that within the hour messages were pouring in from the other cities to Kalma, asking what had happened.

When they turned it back on today, the messages were still pouring in.

"I don't even want to talk about that," she said, although her aides said that supportive phone calls and e-mail messages had poured in.

Since then, nearly 2,000 angry letters, facsimiles and e-mail messages have poured into the offices of the Young Union.

On 22 May 2007, his death was made public as official messages and tributes poured in.

More than 6,000 supportive letters and e-mail messages poured into Mr. Forsythe's office when he publicized his predicament last May.

A thousand sympathetic e-mail messages have poured in; he says he cried reading some of them.