(*61*) Delhi: Indian Navy continues to seek for at the very least 61 extra individuals who stay lacking after defence ships and offshore vessels of the Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC) that sunk within the Arabian Sea, off the Mumbai and Gujarat coast throughout the Cyclone Tauktae.
In an announcement on Wednesday, the Navy stated its ships and plane taking part within the search and rescue (SAR) operations have up to now rescued 186 individuals, together with two from a tugboat, Varapradha.
The Indian Navy discovered 26 our bodies within the Arabian sea after which the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas introduced a high-level inquiry into “lapses and gaps” within the system.
An investigation can be carried out to “inquire into the sequence of occasions resulting in the stranding and drifting of those vessels, and subsequent occasions”.It will probe to “see whether or not warnings by the India Meteorological Department and different statutory authorities had been acted upon or not and if the SOP for securing vessels and catastrophe administration was adopted or there have been some lapses and gaps within the programs resulting in such a mishap.”
A press release by the ministry stated, “Several vessels of ONGC with more than 600 people on board were stranded in offshore areas during Cyclone Tauktae. The stranding, drifting and subsequent events have led to loss of several lives.”
Workmen rescued from the barge P305 narrated their horrifying expertise of their quest for survival. Some stated that they had nearly misplaced hope of creating it alive. “It was a horrific situation on the barge. I had not thought I would survive. But I swam for seven to eight hours with the determination to stay alive and was rescued by the Navy,” workman Manoj Gite instructed reporters in Mumbai, PTI reported.
INS Kochi and INS Kolkata which rescued 125 survivors and carried the useless our bodies of their teammates sailed out once more on Wednesday night to search for the the opposite members.
After finishing SAR operations off the Gujarat coast, INS Talwar has been diverted to affix three different ships looking for the lacking crew of the barge off Mumbai coast.
