Navy Aids Somali Migrants (8 images)

A member of the visit, board, search, and seizure team carries a five-year-old Somali migrant to the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain (CG 57) after being rescued from a disabled skiff in the Gulf of Aden on May 24, 2009. The skiff, originally ferrying 52 passengers, was spotted in distress by Lake Champlain helicopter pilots while patrolling the area. (UPI Photo/Daniel Barker/U.S. Navy)

Members of the visit, board, search, and seizure team transport Somali migrant children to the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain (CG 57) after being rescued from a disabled skiff in the Gulf of Aden on May 24, 2009. The skiff, originally ferrying 52 passengers, was spotted in distress by Lake Champlain helicopter pilots while patrolling the area. (UPI Photo/Daniel Barker/U.S. Navy)

Members of the visit, board, search, and seizure team from the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain (CG 57) tow a disabled skiff carrying 52 Somali migrants in the Gulf of Aden on May 24, 2009. The skiff was spotted in distress by Lake Champlain helicopter pilots while patrolling the area. (UPI Photo/Daniel Barker/U.S. Navy)

Lt. Katherine Scholz, the air operations officer for Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light (HSL) 45, detachment Four, assists Somali migrants aboard the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain (CG 57) after their rescue from a disabled skiff in the Gulf of Aden on May 24, 2009. The skiff, originally ferrying 52 passengers, was spotted in distress by Lake Champlain helicopter pilots while patrolling the area (UPI Photo/Daniel Barker/U.S. Navy)