Three out of the four vessels operating in ONGC’s western offshore fields in the Arabian Sea, which were drifting in the sea after cyclone Tauktae hit the Mumbai coast, have been taken in control and their crew are safe, the state-run oil producer said on Tuesday evening.
One of the vessels, the barge called Papaa–305 with 261 crew onboard, had sunk about 60 kilometres away from Mumbai. As on 7pm on Tuesday, 184 people from capsized Papaa-305 had been rescued and the Indian Navy was actively engaged in rescuing the remaining crew.
