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Seacor Power lift boat flipped while lowering legs, turning The Seacor Power capsized on Tuesday, April 13. (Source: Captain Josh Howard) By FOX 8 Staff | May 18, 2021 at 1:17 PM CDT - Updated May 18 at 4:28 PM PORT FOURCHON (WVUE) -The National Transportation Safety Board published Tuesday a preliminary report for its ongoing investigation of the fatal capsizing of the Seacor Power, April 13, 2021, near Port Fourchon, Louisiana. Information in the report is preliminary and subject to c...

Seacor Power lift boat flipped while lowering legs, turning The Seacor Power capsized on Tuesday, April 13. (Source: Captain Josh Howard) By FOX 8 Staff | May 18, 2021 at 1:17 PM CDT - Updated May 18 at 4:28 PM PORT FOURCHON (WVUE) -The National Transportation Safety Board published Tuesday a preliminary report for its ongoing investigation of the fatal capsizing of the Seacor Power, April 13, 2021, near Port Fourchon, Louisiana. Information in the report is preliminary and subject to c...

April 19, 2021 By Frank McCormack The liftboat Seacor Power, part of Seacor Marine’s fleet of more than a dozen self-propelled and self-raising vessels that serve the offshore oil, gas and wind industries, capsized April 13 amid rough seas and high winds in the Gulf of Mexico, just south of Port Fourchon, Louisiana’s offshore energy production hub. According to U.S. Coast Guard Sector New Orleans, there were 19 crew members abo...

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...

The two people the Coast Guard left with a radio signaled they would be going inside to seek shelter sometime after 9 p.m. Tuesday. They haven't made contact since

Seacor lift boat capsized on 100-mile journey to Talos platform Watson said the Coast Guard knew the boat was headed to Main Pass but didn’t know what “mission they were on.” Author: By David Hammer / Eyewitness Investigator Published: 6:34 PM CDT April 14, 2021 Updated: 6:34 PM CDT April 14, 2021 PORT FOURCHON, La. — The Secor Power lift boat was toppled by wind gusts reported at over 80 miles an hour and swelling seas Tuesday, capsizing ...

12 missing from capsized ship after Coast Guard rescues 6 others off Louisiana coast Published 2 hours ago A Coast Guard Station Grand Isle 45-foot Respone Boat-Medium boatcrew heads toward a capsized 175-foot commercial lift boat on Tuesday, searching for people in the water 8 miles south of Grand Isle, Louisiana. The Coast Guard and multiple other boats rescued six people onboard a commercial lift boat that capsized off the coast of Louisiana on Tuesday night and were searching for more, ...

Only a small portion of the overturned Seacor Power remained visible above Wednesdays rough waves in the Gulf of Mexico. The 166-foot long vessel is grounded a few miles south of Port Fourchon after capsizing in stormy conditions a day earlier. The U.S. Coast Guard has recovered six crew members and the body of a seventh. It continues to search for 12 others missing. Capt. Will Watson, USCG commander for the New Orleans sector, said Wednesday morning he remained "hopeful" that more survivo...

PORT FOURCHON, La. (AP) — Coast Guard boats and aircraft have covered an area larger than the state of Rhode Island to search for 12 people still missing Wednesday off the Louisiana coast after their offshore oilfield vessel capsized in hurricane-force winds. One workers body was recovered Wednesday and six people were rescued Tuesday after the Seacor Power overturned Tuesday afternoon in the Gulf of Mexico, the Coast Guard said. The search, interrupted by darkness and bad weather, has tot...

Winds were reportedly 130-145km/h and seas 2.1-2.7m when the Seacor Power vessel overturned. The US Coast Guard are searching for 12 people missing off the coast of Louisiana on Wednesday (local time) after finding one person dead and pulling six survivors from rough seas when their commercial vessel capsized in hurricane-force winds. Coast Guard Captain Will Watson said winds were 130 to 145 km/h and seas were 2.1 to 2.7 metres when the Seacor Power lift vessel overturned. “That’s challe...