Anyone else hear about a Seacor jackup sinking in Grand Isle today? I’ve been working on the West coast so definitely out of the loop…but one of my friends I stay in touch with said he heard a S&R is taking place for 18 crew with only 7 recovered so far. Hoping for the best.

It might have been mentioned on here, But I’m concerned that if she was underway without the cranes that are close to the deck level, this would have affected the stability. The Weight of the cranes would have offset the weight of the Legs sticking up 200 feet in the air, Thus lowering the CG

The captain left the port at 1230. Here’s the radar from 12:45-1:15 from the NWSNewOrleans Twitter And the radar from 2-2:30 where you can see there are not any advisories NWSNewOrleans Twitter 2 At 3:22 local time, the seacor went under. With the info I can see, I would have left port too.

NWS does not show offshore conditions from the link but even the inshore conditions don’t look nice.

That’s because there was nothing off shore that day. I use the RadarScope app as well. Currently there’s a bit of rain in grand isle and off shore. The conditions were completely unexpected that day. I was working from home in my living room and all the sudden the wind was insane! Sent my patio fur…

Ah, ok. Here’s the radar at 6pm (3 hours after it capsized). It does show that area and the warnings for that area. NWSNewOrleans Twitter 3

That explains a great deal. Thank you

Last image [image] From VesselFinder click “track” and you can see it left port at 1230, got to the gulf around 220… weather didn’t start to get bad until 3.

Lowering the CG is a good thing in that situation.

By CG you mean coast guard? Lowering them into the water after 3pm seems incredibly dangerous given the radar images I’ve found. I get the families side and I’d want to find my husband/dad/brother too but not at the cost of more lives lost. Maybe that’s just me though. I guess my point is, given w…

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I also found this. Wind didn’t get intense until he was in the gulf

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