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Sat 04 Apr 2007North Sea rescue called offNORTH SEA:A major rescue operation to save a teenage boy, his father and three other men who went missing after an oil rig tug suddenly capsized in the North Sea was called off last night after final hopes of finding survivors were extinguished.The 15-year-old boy was on board the Bourbon Dolphin oil rig handling vessel with his father, Odne Remoy, on a week-long work experience voyage, when the vessel suddenly overturned in an apparently freak accident during a routine manoeuvre.