Rescuers searched the waters off the coast of Louisiana on Wednesday after an explosion and fire in the offshore drilling platform left seven miners were badly hurt and lost 11.
The head of the Coast Guard Senior Officer Mike O’Berry is believed that most people who fled to 126 safely after an explosion on a platform in deep waters off the horizon at about 10 pm Tuesday. The drilling rig, about 52 miles southeast of Venice in the party and the state of Louisiana, listing about 10 degrees and that are still burning Wednesday morning.
“It’s a good burn and there is no estimate on when the fire will be put,” said O’Berry.
There were no reports of seven workers were seriously injured, Coast Guard Lt. Kerver said Su. The transfer to the two trauma center in Mobile, Alabama, where the burns unit, but the nature of their injuries was not clear. And have taken at least two to Suburban Hospital of New Orleans.
O’Berry said being brought many of the workers who survived the rig to land on ships operations while the authorities searched the Gulf of Mexico for any signs of the lifeboats.
“We’re hoping everyone in the foundations of life,” he said.
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