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Just over a month after the liftboat Seacor Power capsized off the Louisiana coast with 19 personnel on board, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released a preliminary report that offers a more detailed picture of what happened that day.The vessel capsized the afternoon of April 13. Of the 19 personnel on board- which included nine vessel crew members, two galley staff and eight oilfield workers-six were rescued by good Samaritan and Coast Guard mariners. The bodies of six others have been recovered so far, while seven crew members remain missing.According to the NTSB report, which was released May 18, the Seacor Power, part of Seacor Marine LLC's fleet of "jack up" boats, left Louisiana's offshore energy port, Port Fourchon, at about 1:30 p.m. the day of the accident, bound for an oil and gas lease area on the east side of the Mississippi River delta. Under normal circumstances, that voyage would take about 18 hours. A liftboat, also called a jack up boat, is an oil field service vessel with three or four legs that can be lowered to the sea floor, thus lifting the vessel's hull out of the water, similar to an oil platform. |