Rescuers searching for several people after lift boat capsizes in Gulf of Mexico
ByMark Lammey
A Coast Guard Station Grand Isle 45-foot Response Boat-Medium boatcrew heads toward a capsized 175-foot commercial lift boat April 13, 2021 searching for people in the water 8 miles south of Louisiana. (U.S. Coast Guard photo courtesy of Coast Guard Cutter Glenn Harris)
Rescuers are searching for several missing people after a vessel capsized in the US Gulf of Mexico during a storm yesterday afternoon.
The US Coast Guard said six people had been rescued with the help of civilian boats, but it’s understood a dozen are still missing.
Coastguards said the incident took place eight miles off Port Fourchon, Louisiana, and involved a “distressed 129ft commercial lift vessel”.
The New York Times (NYT) reported that the capsized vessel is the Seacor Power lift boat, owned by Houston-based Seacor Marine.
NYT quoted a Seacor spokesman as saying that 18 people were onboard the vessel when it flipped over.
