Ship with about 39 meters sinks with 18 crew in the Gulf of Mexico, six of them were rescued and another 12 are still missing

After a ship with 18 crew members sank during a storm, on Tuesday afternoon (13), in the Gulf of Mexico, six crew members were rescued and another 12 crew members remain missing.

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Around 16:30 pm, the emergency notification was answered by the US Coast Guard, via radio. According to the incident report, several other crews who were nearby picked up the distress message and went to the ship's location to help the castaways.

Rescue of the crew on the ship

Solidarity crews rescued four people from the water. Two Coast Guard Ships also came to the rescue and saved two more crew members each. Since the rescue of six of the 18 crew members, Coast Guard ships have had the support of four civilian ships to locate the rest of the missing. In addition, the rescue team has been using seaplanes for a better view of the crew members who have not yet been rescued and who may possibly be trapped under the ship.

The head of the National Weather Service's New Orleans area, Benjamin Schott, told NBC News that the incident occurred due to a phenomenon called "wake low”, which occurs when there is a decrease in the warm air in the atmosphere, causing winds of 112 to 128 km/h, leaving the sea agitated.

Gulf of Mexico

The shallow regions of the continental shelf of the Gulf of Mexico contain large deposits of oil and natural gas. These warehouses have been developed extensively since the 1940s and supply a substantial proportion of domestic needs in the United States.

wells offshore were drilled mainly in the waters off the coast of Texas and Louisiana and offshore Mexico in the Bay of Campeche.

Families await news of other crew members

Families are anxiously awaiting news of the 12 crew who are still missing from the oil industry ship that capsized on Thursday, as divers searching for survivors pounded on the ship's hull with no response.

Rescuers don't know if any of the missing can be picked up inside the lift boat called the Seacor Power, which overturned Tuesday in hurricane-force winds and high seas about eight miles off the coast of Louisiana.

"There is the potential that they are still there, but we don't know," Petty Officer 2nd Class Jonathan Lally said on Thursday. “We are still looking for 12 people because there are still 12 to go.”

The Coast Guard said divers were able to carry out operations on Thursday but heard nothing when they hit the ship's hull. The Guard said diving operations were over and would resume on Friday. They will continue to search overnight by air and sea.

Family of crew members help in the search

A handful of families of missing workers gathered at a two-story fire station in Port Fourchon, a large port where much of the industry that services oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico is based.

Workers from across Louisiana and across the country arrive at the port to board the fleet of helicopters and ships that take them to oil rigs miles away for long stretches of work. The flat landscape is punctuated by cranes, where cargo can be loaded or unloaded, and docks or hangars for repairs.

In a nearby port, shrimp boats were moored and fishing camps were erected on stilts to protect them from storms.