The US Coast Guard and several Good Samaritan ships have rescued six people and are looking for more after a commercial lift boat capsized eight miles south of Port Fourchon.
Coastguards received a radio beacon notification at 4:30 p.m. from a 129-foot commercial elevator ship in distress and sent out an urgent broadcast of information at sea, to which several good Samaritan boat crews responded, according to the USCG.
SEACOR Marine confirmed to ABC News that the vessel is the SEACOR Power lift boat, used in oil and gas exploration.
The crew of the pre-commissioned Coast Guard Cutter Glenn Harris, a 154-foot Fast Response Cutter, arrived on site within 30 minutes and rescued one person from the ship. A response boat from the Coast Guard Grand Isle rescued another person, and good Samaritan ships on the ground rescued four others from the water, the Coast Guard reports.
Glenn Harris of the US Coast Guard / Coast Guard
Glenn Harris of the US Coast Guard / Coast Guard
Among the rescue teams responding is a Coast Guard cutter (a second one is underway); a Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans MH-65 Dolphin helicopter; two Coast Guard Station Grand Isle Response Boats-Medium; four good Samaritan vessels; and an HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircraft Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi.
US Coast Guard Station Grand Isle posted photos of damage left by strong storms that swept through Louisiana on Tuesday.
Note: The Coast Guard’s first Tweet initially reported that the ship was at 265 feet and outside of Grand Isle. They have since corrected that report; the proper length of the ship is 129 feet and is located south of Port Fourchon.
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