Man, Louisiana is really getting its A$$ kicked the past few years...


Rescue efforts under way after oil rig explosion in Gulf

[Posted at 11:43 a.m.] U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Bill Colclough tells CNN that all 13 workers involved in the rig explosion are accounted for, but one person is injured.

Coast Choppers are on the way to the site 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay.

[Posted at 11:33 a.m.] An oil rig has exploded 80 miles off the coast of Louisiana, with 12 people overboard and one missing, the Coast Guard said Thursday morning.

Rescue attempts are underway for at least 12 people, Coast Guard spokesman John Edwards told CNN. 13 people were on board the rig total, Edwards said, noting 12 have been accounted for, but one person was missing.

The accident took place 80 miles off the coast of Louisiana on the Vermilion Oil rig 380, which is owned by Houston-based Mariner Energy.

The Coast Guard has multiple helicopters, an airplane and several Coast Guard cutters en route. It's unknown if there are any injuries.

Un freakin' real. Poor Louisana.

oh boy

So George Bush orchestrated 9/11 to kick-start the war on terror...

Then George Bush blew up the levees in Louisianna so Katrina would kill more inner city blacks....

I am waiting with bated breath for conspiracy theorists who came up with the first two theories to unleash their full scale expose that Obama is detonating these oil rigs to further his agenda of stopping offshore drilling...
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crickets

Un real
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[Updated at 12:31 p.m.] All thirteen people aboard a production platform that exploded in the Gulf are accounted for and safely on a commercial vessel according to initial information, the U.S. Coast Guard said in a statement.

"We continue to gather information as we respond with full force, and have oil spill response assets ready for immediate deployment should we receive any reports of pollution," the statement said.

Reports I see have the rig inactive...so no leaking oil.

its only in 450ft of water which should make it easier should the worst case scenario come to be

Yea so far it says no spill has been reported. Good to hear..

They say it is leaking oil now. Unreal.