The US Coast Guard informed that it is searching for two people after a towing vessel sank in the vicinity of mile marker 90.5 on the Mississippi River near New Orleans, on Monday, 12 March.
Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector New Orleans received a report at 9:43 a.m. (local time) that the towing vessel Natalie Jean capsized with three people aboard. The good Samaritan vessel Earl Gosling managed to rescue one person.
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Except from USCG, in the search are also helping:
- Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans MH-65 Dolphin helicopter aircrew
- Coast Guard Station New Orleans 45-foot Response Boat-Medium boatcrew
- Coast Guard Cutter Barbara Mabrity
- New Orleans Harbor Police
- Plaquemines Port Authority
- St. Bernard Parish Sheriff’s Office
- Plaquemines Parish Sheriff’s Office
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- NOAA
