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Five Indian Navy ships, along with naval helicopters and the Coast Guard, were racing against time to locate and rescue 93 crew members of Barge Papaa
The Indian Navy has mounted a massive air and sea rescue mission for 390 oil workers and crew declared missing or stranded as three barges and an oil drillship started to drift in the Arabian Sea after Cyclone Tauktae barrelled through the west coast on Monday night. The three barges had been hired by the State-owned Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) for a project in the western offshore field while the drillship, the Sagar Bhushan, had been deployed for exploration. The gravest concern was over the fate of Barge Papaa 305, which sank 35 nautical miles from Mumbai. It had 273 people on boa...
Cyclone Tauktae: Navy Rescues 184 From Barge P305, 89 Missing; Two Barges and Rig Safe The Naval Staff's Deputy Chief said that the ongoing SAR is one of the most challenging search and rescue operations in the last four decades. Representational image. Photo: PTI Security6 hours ago Mumbai: The Navy said its personnel, battling extreme weather, have rescued 184 of the 273 people onboard Barge P305 so far, adding all personnel on board. Two other barges and an oil rig are safe after Cyclone Tauktae rendered these vessels adrift. “As of Wednesday morning, 184 personnel of barge P305 have bee...
Cyclone Tauktae: Indian Navy searches for 75 missing at sea CNN 47 mins ago By Jessie Yeung and Swati Gupta, CNN © India Navy/AFP/Getty Images Stranded workers are airlifted by the Indian Navy from a barge in the Arabian Sea, which had gone adrift during Cyclone Tauktae, on May 18. The Indian military is continuing search and rescue operations for a third day after a deadly cyclone left scores missing and stranded at sea. Cyclone Tauktae, the strongest storm on record to hit India's west coast, has killed at least 40 people since it made landfall in western Gujarat state ...
Cyclone Tauktae: 22 bodies recovered from sunk barge, 55 still missing, says Navy This barge as well as two other barges that were hit by the cyclone were deployed by Afcons for a contract it had got from state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC). Share Via Email | A+A A- Cyclone Tauktae made landfall on Monday night on the Gujarat coast, which is dotted with oil and gas installations. By Express News Service NEW DELHI: As many as 22 out of the 75 people missing from the barge that sank in the Arabian Sea after getting caught in a severe cyclonic storm are confirmed dead...