A preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board detailed the events that led to a commercial vessel’s capsizing off the Louisiana coast.
With Search Ending, 13 Are Likely Dead in Capsized Boat in Gulf
The Seacor Power, a lift boat carrying 19 people, capsized last week, eight miles from a Louisiana port in stormy weather. Six crew members were quickly rescued. The bodies of five others have been recovered.
Rescue crew members of the Coast Guard Cutter Glenn Harris scanning the water where a 129-foot commercial lift boat capsized about eight miles off Port Fourchon, La., last week.Credit.U.S. Coast Guard, via Associated Press
April 19, 2021Updated 3:45 p.m. ET
The Coast Guard on Monday said it was ending the search for eight crew members of a commercial lift boat who have been missing for six days in the frigid waters off Louisiana after the boat capsized in a storm in the Gulf of Mexico. The likely death toll now stands at 13.