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Mumbai: The Indian Navy on Thursday confirmed the death of 37 personnel onboard barge P305 with the healing of their bodies
Barge P305 went adrift and sank in the Arabian Sea off Mumbai coast throughout Cyclone Tauktae and search operation for a minimum of 36
missing workers is still on
A total of 188 of the 261 onboard have currently been saved by Indian Navy and Coast Guard.The barge sank 35 nautical miles off Mumbai as
Cyclone Tauktae battered India's west coast
P305 was amongst the 4 barges that suffered during the cyclone
The other three were Gal Fabricator and Assistance Station-3-- deployed by the engineering firm Afcons for its ONGC (Oil and Gas
In among the most tough SAR Ops in the after-effects of #CycloneTauktae, 325 survivors have been rescued - 37 #BNV recovered off Mumbai -
Vigorous SAR efforts continue for the missing team of Barge P305 which sank off Mumbai with five IN ships, airplane and helos deployed, the
Indian Navy representative tweeted on Thursday.The Navy is leading a massive, round-the-clock rescue effort that consists of numerous of its
ships, P-81 reconnaissance aircraft and Sea King helicopters, along with Coast Guard and ONGC vessels, to discover survivors from the sunken
barge and other vessels stranded or impacted by the storm
Indian Navy Commodore Ajay Jha said that the Navy on Thursday early morning launched a fresh aerial search and rescue mission, releasing
helicopters and Indian Navy ships through the night, to trace any motion in the dark waters to search for survivors
According to him the search operations would continue for another 3 days at least.The Directorate General of Shipping had actually currently
ordered an examination into the deaths
Now the Mumbai Authorities has likewise announced a probe into barge P305 remaining in the location in spite of storm warnings
An ADR (accidental death report) was registered Wednesday in connection with the deaths
On Thursday early morning the Coast Guard stated another missing out on pull-- Sangeeta, with a crew of 10-- had actually lain about 10
nautical miles west of Maharashtra's Tarapur
The Coast Guard found the ship and has offered food, water and medical assistance to the crew while it is being towed back.Another Navy
ship, INS Talwar, was the On Scene Coordinator off Gujarat coast and helped Support Station 3 (SS-3) and Drill Ship Sagar Bhushan, which
were being safely hauled back to Mumbai by ONGC support vessels, a main said.The ministry of petroleum and gas revealed a high-level query
into lapses and spaces in the system
It will probe the series of occasions resulting in the ONGC support vessels left stranded by the cyclone, see whether warnings by the India
Meteorological Department and other statutory authorities were acted on or not, and if the SOP for protecting vessels and disaster
According to barge's chief engineer Rahman Shaikh, everyone onboard could have been conserved had a number of the life rafts not had
punctures and the captain had taken the cyclone cautions seriously.Shaikh has actually been admitted to Apollo Healthcare facility in Tardeo
with injuries on his knee
He specified that they had gotten the cyclone alerting a week before it hit.Many other vessels in the vicinity left and he had informed the
captain, Balwinder Singh, that they need to likewise leave for the harbour
The captain stated that winds were not anticipated to be over 40 kmph and the cyclone would cross Mumbai in one or 2 hours
The Maharashtra Congress demanded the resignation of Union petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan on ethical grounds over the death of 37
workers on board the barge that sank in the Arabian Sea, and described it as a man made catastrophe
