re: UPDATE 265 Class Liftboat capsizes . New survivor story. Page 77

maybe ran back in to tell the others to "come on"

Saw it in Mobile and it was just unbelievably huge

I’m almost to the point of just wanting them to have not known what happened and passed away almost instantaneously.

In mass today I prayed for the mommas and daddy’s whose kids won’t come home, the wives and children whose husbands and fathers won’t come home.

Heartbreaking all the way around.

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used to work for Bisso doing salvage, pipelay, tie-ins, removals, decommissioning etc. It was a great company to work for until Cappy died

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I dated a guy who worked for Bisso. God awful hitches. 30 days on with like 10-14 off. Hated his schedule,

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Hated his schedule

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I bet Jody didn't

Talos is throwing Seacor under the bus already. It smells like bullshite to me. Talos had the Seacor Power already on payroll. To say they weren't in authority to call any shots here is straight garbage.

Being that the Power had a Cardinal coil tubing crew on board means Talos was having issues with a well at MP 138. Platform could have very well been shut in & not flowing which means Talos would have wanted that coil tubing crew there asap.

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"The Seacor Power was in port for service and inspections for several days prior to its departure," Talos said in a statement provided by Brian Grove, an external spokesman for the company. "The vessel was not at a Talos facility and was fully under the command of its captain and Seacor Marine, including when to depart the port."

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The initial investigation into how the 234-foot long barge-like vessel turned over is focusing on the weather conditions and communications between the captain and any others involved in making the decision to leave port, said a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board, which is assisting the Coast Guard and might take over the investigation.

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The Seacor Power, which weighs almost 2,300 tons, left Port Fourchon on Tuesday at about 1:30 p.m. At that port, its home, control of the comings and goings of vessels rest with the oil services companies such as Seacor Marine and their clients, the offshore oil drillers and operators, said Chett Chiasson, executive director of Port Fourchon. That's a different practice from some other regional ports, 

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"We don't have a harbor master system to check them in or out," Chiasson said. "It's not like at the Port of New Orleans, where they have pilots maneuvering the big ships and have to get clearance, or at the Port of Morgan City, where the Coast Guard manages the system.
"Here they [the vessel captains] communicate with their dispatchers [who] are telling them ... when they need them offshore and when they need them to come in. That's how it works," Chiasson said.

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Well, let's have the USCG/NTSB have a Marine Board Investigation and get to the bottom of it. Having an "external spokesman" release a statement like that at this stage is very troubling....especially since he has no skin in the game.

Let's get the Seacor Logistics coordinator, the Talos contractor rep, the Cardinal CTU MSA with Talos, and all the onshore leadership under oath......after subpoenaing all emails records, weather forecast available to the vessel, and statements from those who survived.

I would bet my last dollar Brian Grove would recant....

The company man representing the oil company for the project can push all he wants but they have no say so whatsoever when that vessel will move, it’s strictly up to the captain and thats it. Now I’m not saying the captains don’t get persuaded by the company man or their own company to move but most experienced captains hold their ground. The captains on the power had decades of experience and would not jeopardize the lives on board to get to location faster.

The forecast wasn’t bad and this freakish storm came out of nowhere so instantly the vessel starts getting pushed by the wind and rough seas.. The captain will then try to maneuver to put his nose into the seas in order to jack up but in doing so a gust of wind lifts up under the heliport followed by high seas thus causing the vessel to list forward. Now center of gravity takes over and you know the rest of the story.