Search for Missing Oil Workers Continues as Rig Sinks in Gulf of Mexico Following Explosion

The U.S. Coast Guard’s search for eleven oil workers who went missing following an explosion on a rig in the Gulf of Mexico continues for a second day but hope is fading as aerial searches have produced no signs of life.

The oil workers had been on the Deepwater Horizon rig off the coast of Louisiana, about 52 miles southeast of the port of Venice, when an explosion ignited a large fire forcing them to abandon the structure.

Rescue crews were able to reach many of the 126 workers who had been on the Deepwater Horizon and 17 of those workers were airlifted to hospitals in the Louisiana. A search for the eleven missing workers began on Wednesday and although that search has been expansive there has been little evidence that they survived the accident.

As search crews continued their hunt for the missing workers there was an effort to extinguish the blaze that had engulfed the rig but by midday that proved futile as it slowly sunk beneath the surface of the Gulf. There are now concerns that the 700,000 gallons of diesel fuel carried on the rig will leak into the Gulf of Mexico.

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