Seven of the 10 oil workers missing in the Gulf of Mexico were found alive Sunday, according to Mexico’s state oil company, three days after evacuating their disabled rig during a tropical storm and escaping in an enclosed life raft. Two bodies also were found but have yet to be identified. Rescuers are still searching for one worker who remains missing, says Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex.
Pemex identified the survivors as two Americans, Jeremy Parfait and Ted Derise, Jr. both of Louisiana; Kham Nadimuzzaman of Bangladesh; and Mexicans Ruben Velasquez, Eleaquin Lopez, Luis Escobar and Ruben Lopez Villalobos. They were found 51 miles off the coast of the gulf state of Campeche by the Bourbon Artavaze ship and taken by helicopter to the Campeche port city of Ciudad del Carmen, where they were admitted to a Pemex regional hospital. There was no word on the condition of the survivors.
The fate of two Americans who are missing, who were previously identified as Craig Myers and Nick Reed, also of Louisiana, was not clear late Sunday.
