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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Removing stuck barge filled with toxic ash could cost millions
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The ship has been stranded off Hanna Park since March 22 and experts worry it could leak toxic chemicals into the ocean.
Tuesday, after two weeks of no apparent progress, a barge with a crane showed up. Crew members were driving a large piling called a spud to keep the damaged barge in place. Later in the afternoon, another spud barge and two tugs arrived.
Moran Towing’s Bridgeport Barge hit the jetties in bad weather, Coast Guard members said. The agency noted it was filled with 12,000 tons of ash from coal fired plants. The agency did not say where the ash was coming from or where it was headed, but many believe it was going to a port in Jacksonville and then a landfill in Southeast Georgia.