Rescue efforts continue on Thursday for search for shipwreck survivors
United States Coast Guard
and last updated 2021-04-15 16:14:11-04
On Thursday, searches are continuing following the capsizing of a lifting vessel on Tuesday in the Gulf of Mexico, just south of Port Fourchon off Louisiana s coast.
The Coast Guard is still leading the investigation.
Official identification of that person has not been announced. Divers are expected on scene Thursday afternoon to continue search efforts for those missing.
Family members have confirmed to KATC that at least four Acadiana men were on board the boat capsized in the Gulf yesterday.
Rescue efforts continue on Thursday for search for shipwreck survivors
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A U.S. Coast Guard crew rescued four people from a commercial boat that caught on fire near Fort Morgan, Alabama.
Two Coast Guard helicopters diverted from a training exercise in Alabama to rescue four individuals from a fishing trawler engulfed in flames, according to reports.
Crews received a distress call around 6:45 p.m. Monday that the commercial vessel Alexandria Pearl was on fire near Fort Morgan, officials said. Two Coast Guard Aviation Training Center Mobile MH-65 Dolphin Helicopter aircrews were conducting training flights nearby and diverted to respond the distress, the Coast Guard said. One of the helicopters lowered a rescue swimmer and life raft, and all four people aboard the vessel abandoned ship into the raft.