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by Tyler Durden
Wednesday, Apr 14, 2021 - 06:00 PM
A ferocious storm quickly traversed Louisiana on Tuesday and along the way capsized a large commercial vessel in heavy seas in the Gulf of Mexico. The ship, known as a liftboat or a jackup barge, was carrying 19 people at the time of the incident. A massive search and rescue operation by the U.S. Coast Guard and a fleet was immediately launched and continued into Wednesday.
The vessel was the 129-foot liftboat Seacor Power and capsized about eight miles from the Port Fourchon on Tuesday afternoon.
Coast Guardsmen have found one dead and rescued six. There are still 12 people missing.