What Happened To ONGC Rig ? | Tauktae Storm |

TAUKTAE AND VARIOUS BADGES

Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Tauktae was a powerful cyclone in the Arabian Sea that hit north-northwestwards and cross the Gujarat coast between Porbandar and Naliya around 18th May afternoon/evening, which is considered to become the strongest tropical cyclone to make landfall in the Indian state of Gujarat and one of the strongest tropical cyclones to ever affect the west coast of India which was first monitored by the Indian Meteorological Department on May 13 and drifted eastwards by May 14.Tauktae intensified on May 15. Tauktae caused severe rain states of Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, with the severe storm on May 16.   

Districts towards the southern leg of Konkan and Madhya Maharashtra (including Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg, Kolhapur, Sangli, and Satara) have been placed under an orange category alert, indicating more severe weather, on Saturday and Sunday. On May 17 it reached a peak and caused landfall on the coast of Gujarat. The Tauktae brought heavy rainfall and floods on the coast of Kerala and Maharashtra as well. It caused 122 deaths in India. It caused damage to over 200000 people in Gujarat. Nearly 40 fishermen were lost in the sea. Gujarat experienced the highest winds at the speed of 114 km/h. About 6000 villages were left in dark. 

 PM Narendra Modi made an aerial trip to survey the affected areas and announced Rs. 2L to each of families died in cyclone and Rs. 50000 for injured. Evacuated people have been given necessary items in camps; however, they were feared to run out of food rations, hygiene items, and experience loss of lives. In total, 122 people have died as a result of Cyclone Tauktae, with at least 80 others injured. 10 are dead in Kerala, 8 in Karnataka, 3 in Goa, 18 in Maharashtra, 37 dead from the sinking of Barge P305, and 46 in Gujarat. The cyclone also caused a large number of maritime incidents as it moved along the coast of western India. Hundreds were missing from various barges, however, most of them have been rescued. At least 37 bodies have been recovered from rescued barges, with over 40 people still missing.

Barge P305:

       SOP included staying on safe mode or returning to the anchoring points by respective installations. There were 342 vessels out on the sea with 7675 personnel, of which 6961 stayed safe at respective locations.

 

1) P305 : construction barge: Had 261 personnel. It decided to stay near the platform where it was working. The barge's anchor started drifting before crashing into a rig. So far, 186 personnel have been rescued (49 bodies recovered), and the search is on for the remaining 26 members.

2) Support Station-3 : The towering wireline of the construction barge snapped. The barge, with 202 personnel on board

3) Sagar Bhushan Drillship of ONGC : With 101 personnel, there was also a mechanical fault in the steering system. However, all the crew was brought to shore safely.

4) Gal Constructor : A construction barge with 137 personnel was at a "safe location", the PNG Ministry said. It started drifting after its anchor gave away. All personnel was rescued.

5) Varaprada : The towing tugboat of a barge with 13 personnel on board. Two personnel have been rescued and the search for the remaining 11 is ongoing.

Two barges with 410 persons had gone off on the Mumbai coast as a cyclone hit the Arabian Sea with a severe storm. The Indian Navy was undertaking the rescue operation along with 3 warships. INS Kochi, INS Kolkata and INS Talwar. The batches deployed Offshore drilling in Mumbai height and started drifting. The rescue mission involves the Indian Navy: 6 vessels (INS Kochi, INS Kolkata, INS Talwar, Beas, Betwa, Teg), Coast Guard: 5 vessels (ICG Smarth, Juliet, ICG 206, CG Patrol, ICG Shoor), ONGC: 20 Vessels, Afcons: 1 vessel and aerial survey with 15 helicopters (ONGC-7, Navy-4, Coast Guard-4).

Among the 60 personal of Barge 305, already 42 have been rescued by INS Kochi, INS Kolkata has rescued to survivors of life wrapped vessel then it joined in search of Barge 305 crew. Severe cyclone has resulted in flooding of the vessels in the compartment and the power supply was denied in a shift response to SOS by Indian vessel Anna wall helicopter dispatched for rescuing the crew which was adrift northwest of Mangalore, Karnataka.

Commander mother was said that the helicopter was sent to rescue the crew and the Navy response to deal with fall out of cyclone 11 diving team have been kept for deployment in case of any request from States. 12 flood rescue teams and medical teams have been made ready for immediate response repair and rescue teams have been formed to undertake the urgent repair for post-cyclone and where are ships along with the Western Seaboard are used for aid and relief purposes.

 

Rahman Shaikh, the chief engineer of the P-305  which housed personnel engaged in maintenance work of an offshore oil drilling platform of state-run oil and gas major ONGC, that sank off the Mumbai coast during cyclone Tauktae, said that on Thursday that “The captain did not take the cyclone warning seriously, leading to the death of at least 49 crew members.”

The captain insisted that wind speeds will not be very high and the cyclonic storm will last only for an hour.

"The captain Balwinder Singh said the wind will not go over 75 kmph. It will start at 11 and end at 12.”, said the 48- year-old Rahman Shaikh said in the video.

Balwinder Singh is among the 26 people still missing.

He is said to have jumped into the waters without a life jacket.

Rahman Shaikh and many others spend more than 24 hours in water before being rescued by the Indian Navy. When it was out of control, the team went up, where they found that the captain was missing. They then distributed life jackets and jumped out. The company should give compensations to family members of the deceased person and both the company and vessel owners should be black-listed, he demanded.

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