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PIL seeks judicial probe into Mumbai High oilfield disaster due to Cyclone Tauktae
The PIL jointly filed by FSUI and the CITU also sought the court to direct the Central government and Director General of Shipping to review and revise safety guidelines for activities at sea as the current guidelines are grossly insufficient.
Mumbai: Owner of tugboat that sank during cyclone Tauktae booked for culpable homicide
Barge P305 and Varaprada - both support vessels working for the state-run ONGC's offshore oilfields near Mumbai – had borne the brunt of cyclone Tauktae, which made landfall on Gujarat coast on May 17.
Cyclone Tauktae: 2 more bodies washed ashore Gujarat, Daman coast
Out of the two more bodies recovered, one was washed ashore at Magod Dungri in Valsad on Sunday. Before this, six bodies with life jackets were found from different places in the district in the last couple of days, the police said.
Death toll on barge P305 rises to 70; Navy searching for 16 missing
The list of those missing may get a lot shorter if it is confirmed that the 14 bodies recovered along the Maharashtra and Gujarat coasts in the last few days are those of the barge and tugboat personnel, an official said.
Cyclone Tauktae: 2 more bodies found on Valsad coast in Gujarat
With this, six bodies have so far been recovered from two places here in south Gujarat since Saturday evening, Valsad Superintendent of Police Rajdeepsinh Jhala said.
Maharashtra: 8 bodies found on Raigad coast; suspected to be of barge victims
Out of the eight bodies found on Saturday, five were washed ashore in Mandwa, two in Alibaug and another one in Murud, the senior official from Raigad police said.
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Cyclone Tauktae: Barge P-305 located on seabed, tugboat untraceable
The Defence Public Relations Officer said, "Barge P305 located at the seabed after a systematic search by INS Makar employing advanced side-scan sonar. Search efforts for remaining crews of P305 and Tug Varaprada continue."
66 dead, 20 missing; Navy deploys diving teams to look for bodies
A Mumbai police spokesperson said the Navy has handed over the bodies recovered so far to the city police. Barge P-305, which housed personnel engaged in maintenance work of an offshore oil drilling platform of state-run oil and gas major ONGC, sank on Monday evening off the Mumbai coast during the cyclone.
Cyclone Tauktae: 26 still missing; Navy deploys diving teams to look for bodies
"To augment the ongoing SAR ops for the missing crew of Barge P305 and Tug Varaprada, specialised diving teams onboard INS Makar with side-scan sonar and INS Tarasa sailed out early morning today from Mumbai," a Navy spokesperson tweeted.
Cyclone Tauktae: Rajnath Singh lauds armed forces, Indian Coast Guard, for their search & rescue operations
The Navy on Thursday morning launched a fresh aerial search and rescue mission, deploying helicopters to scour the waters off Mumbai coast, where the accommodation barge P305 went adrift in Tauktae fury before it sank Monday.
Tragedy at sea: 49 from barge still missing, Navy continues search on 4th day
As many as 26 personnel on board the barge are dead and 49 still missing, after Navy personnel, battling extreme weather, so far rescued 186 of the 261 people who were on board the barge P305 and two personnel from tugboat Varaprada.
37 dead, 38 from barge off Mumbai still missing; Navy continues search
The Navy on Thursday morning launched a fresh aerial search and rescue mission, deploying helicopters to scour the waters off Mumbai coast, where the accommodation barge P305 went adrift in Cyclone Tauktae fury before it sank Monday.
PM takes stock of rescue operations for ONGC barge personnel
At least 22 personnel on board the accommodation barge P305 that went adrift in Cyclone Tauktae fury before sinking in the Arabia Sea off Mumbai coast are dead and 65 are still missing, Navy officials had said earlier.
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