Seven oil workers who spent several days drifting out in the Gulf of Mexico in a life raft were rescued Sunday, according to oil company officials.
Pemex, Mexico’s state-run oil company, said that the men were found off the coast of Campeche state. The company said two bodies were also discovered and another worker remains missing.
The men were airlifted out of the water by a helicopter rescue team and were taken to a nearby hospital.
The men evacuated their offshore vessel, the Trinity II liftboat, after it was hit by Tropical Storm Nate, and escaped into a life boat. The men were doing work for the Texas-based research company Geokinetics.
The storm disabled their liftboat, a self-elevating and self-propelled vessel which looks similar to a small oil platform, and were forced to abandon it.
Pemex did not elaborate on the circumstances surrounding their rescue, nor did it elaborate on the condition of the men.
The seven workers found alive were Jeremy Parfait and Ted Derise, both from the United States; Kham Nadimuzzaman, of Bangladesh; and Ruben Velasquez, Eleaquin Lopez, Luis Escobar and Ruben Lopez Villalobos, all from Mexico.
Seven Oil Workers Rescued in Gulf of Mexico
Seven oil workers who spent several days drifting out in the Gulf of Mexico in a life raft were rescued Sunday, according to oil company officials.
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