As a ferocious storm whipped up towering waves off Louisiana’s coast on Tuesday, a commercial vessel carrying 18 people capsized in the Gulf of Mexico, sparking a mass rescue operation from the U.S. Coast Guard and a fleet of good Samaritans.
By early Wednesday morning, rescuers had plucked six people from the sea as the Coast Guard continued combing the water for survivors.
“We’re still looking for others right now,” Petty Officer Jonathan Lally, a spokesman for the Coast Guard, told The Washington Post early on Wednesday.
The vessel was a 129-foot lift boat named Seacor Power, according to Armond Batiste, a spokesman for Seacor Marine, which owns the vessel. Batiste confirmed to The Post that 18 people were onboard when it capsized.
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