ONGC barge tragedy: Safety of P305 laid with Durmast, says Afcons
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Last Updated: May 20, 2021, 08:34 PM IST
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By Thursday afternoon, 49 of the total 261 crew members of the ill-fated barge P305 were still missing while 26 were confirmed dead. The government has set up an inquiry into the incident while companies have begun to tell their side of the story.
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By Thursday afternoon, 49 of the total 261 crew members of the ill-fated barge P305 were still missing while 26 were confirmed dead.
Afcons, the oilfield service provider that operated the barge that sank in the cyclone killing many on Monday night, has said the vessel’s safety lay with Durmast, the company that owns the barge and appoints the Master and other crew.
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Eleven more bodies were recovered from the sunken Barge P305 off Mumbai coast, taking the death toll to 60.
Fifteen persons are still missing five days after the incident.
“From Barge P305, there are 186 survivors and 60 bodies have been recovered. Navy is coordinating search and rescue operations with ships and aircraft for the missing,” the Navy said on Friday. An underwater search is planned by the Navy’s Survey ship for locating wrecks of Barge P305 and Tug Varaprada using specialised teams and equipment, the Navy added.
Accommodation Barge P305 with 261 persons on board sank 35 nautical miles off Mumbai on May 17 in cyclone Tauktae. Three construction barges of Afcons Infrastructure working on a project of Oil and Natural gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) and one drilling rig of the ONGC deployed for exploration in Bombay High off the coast of Mumbai were hit by the cyclone.
ONGC barge tragedy: Safety of P305 laid with Durmast, says Afcons
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Last Updated: May 20, 2021, 08:34 PM IST
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By Thursday afternoon, 49 of the total 261 crew members of the ill-fated barge P305 were still missing while 26 were confirmed dead. The government has set up an inquiry into the incident while companies have begun to tell their side of the story.
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By Thursday afternoon, 49 of the total 261 crew members of the ill-fated barge P305 were still missing while 26 were confirmed dead.
Afcons, the oilfield service provider that operated the barge that sank in the cyclone killing many on Monday night, has said the vessel’s safety lay with Durmast, the company that owns the barge and appoints the Master and other crew.
As the death toll in the barge tragedy in the Bombay High Fields rose to 49 on Thursday, it has now emerged that there could have been over 10,000 people in the path of the devastating Cyclone Tauktae as it whirled over to Gujarat on Monday.In .
Afcons blames weather, master of P305 for tragedy near ONGC platform
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Conditions deteriorated rapidly reaching levels far worse than predicted on May 17, it says
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Rescued crew members of Barge-P305 after they were brought by INS Kochi in Mumbai, on Wednesday. | Photo Credit:
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Conditions deteriorated rapidly reaching levels far worse than predicted on May 17, it says
ONGC’s contractor Afcons Infrastructure Ltd, the Shapoorji Pallonji Group company, said it was unpredictable bad weather and the decision of the master of the barge P305 to stay put in high sea that led to the tragedy in the Arabian Sea.