Bodies of 4 Gulf Coast boat crew members recovered, search continues for 9 still missing Share Updated: 7:50 PM EDT Apr 17, 2021 The Associated Press Share Updated: 7:50 PM EDT Apr 17, 2021
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Show Transcript They really think somewhere inside. I really think he s in there praying and hoping. Yeah. The way he was tough that they would assure you that it s good, whatever. But they really think some are still in that vessel, right? But so they re going in the hope that they re going in there. It makes me feel like I m not for sure. I know him. He s not ready to go. Well. We re hoping for a miracle that they re still in their pocket rules without tight doors watertight. And they could still be there. You don t know. Uh huh.
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Divers continued the search Saturday for nine missing crewmen after an oilfield boat overturned Tuesday in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana.
The Seacor Power liftboat carrying 19 people departed Port Fourchon at the southern tip of Lafourche around 1:30 p.m. as thunderstorms began to roll in. The boat, which was headed toward Main Pass off Plaquemines Parish, capsized about 4:30 p.m. in about 55 feet of water 8 miles south of the port.
Six people were rescued Tuesday shortly after the 129-foot vessel capsized, and one other body was recovered from the water Wednesday. A second body was found Thursday in the water about 50 miles from the partially submerged liftboat, the Lafourche Parish Coroner s Office said Friday.
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Search for 9 missing from capsized boat in Gulf on 6th day
by The Associated Press
Last Updated Apr 18, 2021 at 11:58 am EDT
Marion Cuyler, fiancée of missing crew member Chaz Morales, talks on her cell phone at a fire station where family members of 12 people missing from a capsized oil industry vessel have been gathering, Thursday, April 15, 2021, in Port Fourchon, La. The lift boat capsized in the Gulf of Mexico during a storm on Tuesday, killing one with 12 others still missing. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
PORT FOURCHON, La. For a sixth day, rescue crews returned Sunday to a capsized lift boat in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana, looking for nine crew members who have not been found, the Coast Guard said.