Rescue divers entered the capsized Seacor Power lift boat in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday and found bodies of two crew members, the Coast Guard said.
The agency did not release the names of the dead, but Petty Officer 3rd Class Jonathan Lally said they were in the port-side engine room of the vessel, which flipped onto its starboard side Tuesday with 19 people on board. Members of the Seacor Power's extended family had expressed hope Thursday that two crew members who were thought to be in the ship's engine room would be pulled out alive.
Another crew member's body was found Wednesday, and one on Thursday several miles west of the crippled vessel. Lafourche Parish Coroner John King has identified those men as captain David Ledet, 63, of Thibodaux and Ernest Williams, 69, of Arnaudville.
Six were rescued shortly after the mishap. Nine are still missing.
Search-and-rescue divers worked Friday to get inside the cabin of the capsized Seacor Power lift boat, hoping to find survivors a day after re…
The Coast Guard said Seacor's owners contracted commercial divers from Donjon Marine Co. after the vessel faltered in a punishing storm eight miles south of Port Fourchon.
They returned to the vessel Friday at 7:50 a.m. "The divers had to stop diving mid-morning due to dangerous weather conditions but resumed diving operations again at approximately 1:30 p.m," the agency said.
Dive operations were scheduled to continue Friday night, weather permitting.
The Seacor Power capsized while en route to deliver equipment to an oil platform near the mouth of the Mississippi River. It had departed Port Fourchon on Tuesday at about 1:30 p.m. even though the National Weather Service was already warning of tropical storm-force winds — 39 mph or greater — accompanied by "suddenly higher waves" in the Gulf.
Those winds soon reached hurricane force because of a rare weather event known as a "wake low." The Seacor Power took on water and turned over on its starboard side at about 4:30 p.m., setting off an increasingly dire search effort that is set to enter its fifth day Saturday.
Relatives hope some still alive inside toppled vessel in Gulf of Mexico
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