Six were rescued Tuesday after the vessel flipped during a storm and four bodies have since been recovered.
PORT FOURCHON, La. — For a sixth day, rescue crews returned Sunday to a capsized lift boat in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana, looking for nine crew members who have not been found, the Coast Guard said. Officials have released little information about their continuous search in the murky seas surrounding the capsized Seacor Power lift boat some 8 miles off the coast since announcing divers found two bodies inside the ship Friday night. Six people were rescued alive after the boat capsized Tuesday in a storm. Four bodies have been found – one Wednesday, one Thursday and two on Friday. Families of the missing crew members haven’t given up that maybe they found an air pocket or are still alive. “We have hope,” Marion Cuyler wrote in a text to a reporter. Cuyler texted her fiancée, crane operator Chaz Morales, that the weather appeared too bad to head out Tuesday. She said Morales texted her back that he wished he could stay ashore. “We aren’t defeated. We will keep fighting,” Cuyler texted a reporter late Saturday. The bulky vessel flipped over Tuesday afternoon south of Port Fourchon, a major base for the U.S. oil and gas industry. It has three legs it can lower to the sea floor to lift it out of the water as a temporary platform. Divers are trying to get inside the capsized boat, which has part of its overturned hull and one of its legs above the water when the sea is 50 to 55 feet deep.
