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Searchers, families hope to find 12 missing people in boat capsized in Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana John Bacon, USA TODAY
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Boats and aircraft have been combing a swath of the Gulf of Mexico the size of Rhode Island since the boat rolled and flipped Tuesday afternoon south of Port Fourchon, a base for the U.S. oil and gas industry. Part of the boat remained above the surface Thursday.
“A vessel that is capsized with the potential of people trapped inside, there are a lot of dynamic aspects we have to look at,” Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Jonathan Lally said. “We don’t have a whole lot of information of where they are.
The USCGG announced Wednesday that it had recovered one unresponsive person and that it was continuing to search for 12 missing people from a capsized commercial lift vessel south of Port Fourchon.
The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) announced Wednesday that it had recovered one unresponsive person and that it was continuing to search for 12 missing people from a capsized commercial lift vessel eight miles south of Port Fourchon.
Rescue crews have so far searched more than 1,440 square miles during a combined search period of nearly 40 hours, the USCG revealed. The search area is larger than the state of Rhode Island, the USCG highlighted. Rescue assets involved in the search so far comprise the following;