Search Efforts for Missing Offshore Workers in Transocean Gulf Of Mexico Oil Rig Explosion Will Resume Tomorrow

 The Coast Guard will suspend aerial search efforts for the 11 missing offshore workers who went missing after the Transocean rig Deepwater Horizon exploded in the Gulf Of Mexico off the Louisiana Coast yesterday. The Coast Guard has announced that it will resume its aerial search at first light. However, its vessels will continue to patrol the waters in the area around the burning rig where the missing workers are expected to be. There are currently 115 Transocean oil rig workers who have been accounted for. 17 workers have injured, and have been evacuated by helicopter. They have been taken to hospitals in Alabama and Louisiana, including two workers with serious burn injuries who have been evacuated to burn centers in Mobile and New Orleans. Local news reports yesterday had claimed that the 11 offshore workers have been found safe and sound. While families of the victims prayed that the news was true, it unfortunately isn't, and we may have to wait a few more hours to know the fate of the missing workers. No one knows yet if the 11 workers were able to make it to one of the rig’s lifeboats in time to escape the fire. Meanwhile, terrorism or sabotage has been ruled out as a cause in this oil rig explosion. Maritime lawyer Brian Beckom is a Board-Certified Trial Lawyer whose primary focus is the representation of drillers, roustabouts, roughnecks, and other offshore and oil rig workers in offshore accidents in Texas, Louisiana, along the Gulf Coast,  across the country and in international waters.