Three barges, an anchor handling boat and a drillship lost anchors and drifted away as the cyclone skirted the western coast New Delhi: Faced with high-speed wind and swelling sea, the ill-fated barge Pappa-305, with 261 crew onboard, lost anchors and smashed into an unmanned platform before sinking in the Arabian Sea after its captain ignored weather warnings and chose …
Afcons Infrastructure said on Wednesday that 26 bodies recovered by the Indian Navy during its search operations in the Arabian Sea were crew members of the barge Papaa 305 that sank off the coast of Mumbai on Monday evening. Afcons said P305 “had a full complement of safety equipment including life jackets and life rafts for all persons on board”. …
Two barges with 410 persons on board have gone adrift off the Mumbai coast as the cyclonic storm ‘Tauktae’ over the Arabian Sea intensified into a very severe cyclonic storm and is expected to reach Gujarat coast Monday evening, officials said. “In response to another SOS received fromBarge ‘GAL Constructor’ with 137 people onboard about 8 nautical miles from Mumbai, …
A very severe cyclonic storm with winds gusting up to 185 km per hour was barrelling towards the Gujarat coast on Monday, dumping heavy rains on Mumbai, forcing the evacuation of over 1.5 lakh people in Gujarat and leaving two barges with 410 people on board adrift in the Arabian Sea. - PTI Maharashtra Landfall process starts; 6 dead in …
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