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12 missing after blast on oil rig in Gulf
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
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Semisubmersible Drilling Rig ‘Deepwater Horizon’ reports explosion/fire onboard, says Transocean Ltd. The rig is in the Gulf of Mexico, in Mississippi Canyon block 252 and around 41 miles, (66 km) offshore off the Louisiana coast.
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File photo by DoE
(NOT a photo of rig in question)
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* MarketWatch.com brings us the following report this Wednesday morning and it starts off like this... Transocean Ltd. today reported a fire onboard its semisubmersible drilling rig Deepwater Horizon. The incident occurred April 20, 2010 at approximately 10:00 p.m. central time in the United States Gulf of Mexico. The rig was located approximately 41 miles offshore Louisiana on Mississippi Canyon block 252... Transocean's Emergency and Family Response Teams are working with the U.S. Coast Guard and lease operator BP Exploration & Production, Inc. to care for all rig personnel and search for missing rig personnel. A substantial majority of the 126 member crew is safe but some crew members remain unaccounted for at this time. Injured personnel are receiving medical treatment as necessary. The names and hometowns of injured persons are being withheld until family members can be notified...12 missing after blast on oil rig in Gulf
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
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Semisubmersible Drilling Rig ‘Deepwater Horizon’ reports explosion/fire onboard, says Transocean Ltd. The rig is in the Gulf of Mexico, in Mississippi Canyon block 252 and around 41 miles, (66 km) offshore off the Louisiana coast.
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File photo by DoE(NOT a photo of rig in question)
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Read the full report at link below...
Transocean Ltd. Reports Fire on Semisubmersible Drilling Rig Deepwater Horizon
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* Much more up to date info at FOX8Live.com... NOTE: Missing workers may have been found in lifeboat -- more to come...
Explosion rocks oil rig; Coast Guard says workers still missing
- Above link has News Video, Slideshow and more...
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* On CNN’s Blog page today is the following article and it goes in part like this... An explosion on a rig is a rare occurrence because fires don't generally start on rigs and are easily and quickly contained when they do. But this time there was one - and at least 12 people are missing and seven are critically injured after an explosion on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the U.S. Coast Guard...
Read this article in full at link below...
Velshi: Rigs are some of the safest places
... And I totally agree with Velshi’s above link statement too!
But, don't kid yourself... It is a dangerous job as to compared to most...
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Update: 7:25pm CDT
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The previous statement, Missing workers may have been found in lifeboat, has not panned out as we all first hoped. The search is still on for the 11 missing.
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The initial reports that 12 workers were missing... turned out to be only 11. There were actually a total of 126 crew members on the rig at the time of the accident. The U.S. Coast Guard has counted a total of 98 survivors on two oil service boats and 17 injured... seven who were critically injured and had been taken to hospitals. Sadly though... Eleven are still unaccounted for as of this update.
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Our thoughts and prayers go out to all affected
by this tragic accident in the Gulf
AubreyJ.........
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Update: 7:25pm CDT
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The previous statement, Missing workers may have been found in lifeboat, has not panned out as we all first hoped. The search is still on for the 11 missing.
.
The initial reports that 12 workers were missing... turned out to be only 11. There were actually a total of 126 crew members on the rig at the time of the accident. The U.S. Coast Guard has counted a total of 98 survivors on two oil service boats and 17 injured... seven who were critically injured and had been taken to hospitals. Sadly though... Eleven are still unaccounted for as of this update.
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Our thoughts and prayers go out to all affected
by this tragic accident in the Gulf
AubreyJ.........
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