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714 people involved in 'adverse incidents' due to Cyclone Tauktae, 628 rescued so far ANI | Updated: May 20, 2021 22:10 IST New Delhi [India], May 20 (ANI): Over 710 people who were in barges and vessels off the Mumbai coast faced "adverse incidents" due to the impact of Cyclone Tauktae and 628 have been rescued so far, petroleum ministry sources said on Thursday. The sources said P-305 construction barge, which was carrying 261 personnel, stayed near the platform where it was deployed. Its anchors gave away due to impact of cyclone, it started driftin...

Read more about Cyclone Tauktae: 49 dead on sunk barge, search on for 37 missing on Business Standard. Three more bodies have been recovered

  Faced with high-speed wind and swelling sea, the ill-fated barge Pappa-305, with 261 crew on board, lost anchors and smashed into an unmanned platform before sinking in the Arabian Sea after its captain ignored weather warnings and chose not to move the vessel away from the path of severe cyclonic storm Tauktae, a survivor recounted. A person, rescued from one of the three barges that adrifted after being smashed by the severe cyclone, said that while other barges started to move out of the path of the cyclone when they received warning, the Master of P-305 hardly moved 200 metres from its...

World over offshore oil and gas operations are neither shut nor personnel evacuated in every adverse weather event.

Barge P305 with 261 personnel at the Bombay High offshore oilfield was wrecked by cyclonic Tauktae(FILE) Mumbai: Afcons Infrastructure, whose chartered barge P305 with 261 personnel at the Bombay High offshore oilfield was wrecked by cyclonic storm Tauktae earlier this week, on Thursday said the weather deteriorated rapidly and reached levels far worse than forecasts. As many as 49 personnel on board the barge have been killed and 26 are still missing. Afcons Infrastructure, the engineering arm of Shapoorji Pallonji Group, also claimed it has followed all standard practices. Afcons, on behal...