Mumbai: A member of the crew was burnt to death and three other members were trapped in the engine room after a vessel caught fire near the ‘Mumbai High’ offshore oil field on Saturday. A release issued by the Indian Coast Guard said that a fire was reported at one o’clock in the vessel named ‘Rohini’. At that time it was 92 nautical miles from Mumbai coast near NQO platform of ‘Mumbai High’.
One injured crew member has been rescued from the fire and flown in with the help of an Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) helicopter, the Coast Guard said, adding the injured person is being treated in Mumbai while the search for three of his colleagues is on till Saturday evening.
“The three crew members are trapped in the engine room (of the vessel), which could not be accessed because of the intensity of the fire. The injured person has been flown in with the help of an ONGC helicopter,” the ICG said.
Initially, ‘MV Albatross-5’ ship operating in the vicinity of the oilfield in the sea pulled the affected vessel away from the Mumbai High rigs, followed by the ICG deploying offshore patrol vessel ‘Samarth’ to douse the fire.
