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The Seacor Power, an oil industry vessel, flipped over Tuesday in rough seas It left Port Fourchon in Louisiana bound for an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico Four people are confirmed dead, six were rescued and nine remain missing On Sunday Talos, owner of the oil platform, said decision to sail was not theirs They said Houston-based Seacor Marine decided to launch the Seacor Power 

Associated Press PORT FOURCHON, La. — For a sixth day, rescue crews returned Sunday to a capsized lift boat in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana, looking for nine crew members who have not been found, the Coast Guard said. Officials have released little information about their continuous search in the murky seas surrounding the capsized Seacor Power lift boat some 8 miles (13 kilometers) off the coast since announcing divers found two bodies inside the ship Friday night. Six people were rescue...

Search for missing crew off Louisiana to be suspended, Coast Guard says By STACEY PLAISANCE The Associated Press,Updated April 19, 2021, 2:21 p.m. Email to a Friend Rescue boats are seen next to the capsized lift boat Seacor Power seven miles off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico.Gerald Herbert/Associated Press CUT OFF, La. (AP) — U.S. Coast Guard says the search for crew members who disappeared when a lift boat capsized off Louisiana will be suspended at sunset Monday. Capt. Wi...

Nine crew members have yet to be found after the boat capsized Tuesday in rough seas in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana.

By STACEY PLAISANCE | Associated Press | Published: April 19, 2021 CUT OFF, La. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says the search for crew members who disappeared when a lift boat capsized off Louisiana will be suspended at sunset Monday. Capt. Will Watson, commander of the Coast Guard Sector New Orleans, said at a press conference that authorities do not expect to find more survivors from the vessel. The grim news comes after days of searching for the missing workers from the oil industry lift ...

Coast Guard: Search for missing crew to be suspended STACEY PLAISANCE and KEVIN McGILL, Associated Press April 19, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 14 1of14The capsized lift boat Seacor Power is seen seven miles off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday, April 18, 2021. The vessel capsized during a storm on Tuesday.Gerald Herbert/APShow MoreShow Less 2of14Rescue boats are seen next to the capsized lift boat Seacor Power seven miles off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of M...

Coast Guard will suspend search and rescue effort at sunset for missing mariners Share Updated: 1:58 PM CDT Apr 19, 2021 WDSU Digital Team Coast Guard New Orleans A 129-foot lift boat capsized 8 miles off Port Fourchon Tuesday, April 13, 2021. (Courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard) SOURCE: Coast Guard New Orleans GET LOCAL BREAKING NEWS ALERTS The latest breaking updates, delivered straight to your email inbox. Share Updated...

Bodies of 4 Gulf Coast boat crew members recovered, search continues for 9 still missing Share Updated: 7:50 PM EDT Apr 17, 2021 The Associated Press Share Updated: 7:50 PM EDT Apr 17, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript They really think somewhere inside. I really think hes in there praying and hoping. Yeah. The way he was tough that they would assure you that its good, whatever. But they really think some are still in that vessel, right? But so theyr...

Divers continued the search Saturday for nine missing crewmen after an oilfield boat overturned Tuesday in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana.  The Seacor Power liftboat carrying 19 people departed Port Fourchon at the southern tip of Lafourche around 1:30 p.m. as thunderstorms began to roll in. The boat, which was headed toward Main Pass off Plaquemines Parish, capsized about 4:30 p.m. in about 55 feet of water 8 miles south of the port.     Six people were rescued Tuesday shortly af...

Search for 9 missing from capsized boat in Gulf on 6th day by The Associated Press Last Updated Apr 18, 2021 at 11:58 am EDT Marion Cuyler, fiancée of missing crew member Chaz Morales, talks on her cell phone at a fire station where family members of 12 people missing from a capsized oil industry vessel have been gathering, Thursday, April 15, 2021, in Port Fourchon, La. The lift boat capsized in the Gulf of Mexico during a storm on Tuesday, killing one with 12 others still missing. (AP Photo/...