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Mud-slinging as death toll climbs to 37 in India's offshore tragedy


21 May 2021 0:41 GMT
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21 May 2021 0:41 GMT
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As more bodies were recovered Thursday following the tragic incident at Oil & Natural Gas Corporation’s Mumbai High fields offshore India and the official investigation gets under way, the perhaps inevitable blame game has escalated.
Local contractor Afcons blamed the extreme weather and the master of chartered barge Papaa 305 for the tragic loss of 37 lives.
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The P 305, which was acting as an accommodation unit and had 261 workers on board when Cyclone Tauktae hit, should have been moved out of harm’s way, The Hindu quoted Afcons as saying. ....

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“We were told to stop working on May 15 and come back to the barge,” Naresh said. “But we were not given any instructions or told that we’ll be going back to the shore. They just moved our barge 200 metres away from the oil platform.”
So, P305 remained in open water. On the morning of May 17, when Cyclone Tauktae ushered in winds of 150-200 kmph and waves 10 metres high, six of the barge’s anchors snapped. The barge then rammed into an oil platform which punctured a hole in the vessel, causing water to gush in.
Survivors and relatives of those dead or missing all asked ....

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