2nd Louisiana worker’s death confirmed in obituary of co-worker

A Louisiana offshore worker listed as missing in the Gulf of Campeche since last Thursday is reported as having died in the obituary of a co-worker who also lost his life.

For reasons unexplained, officials still have not released the names of two men who died in the Gulf of Campeche after evacuating their liftboat which was disabled during Tropical Storm Nate.

However, a Pellerin Funeral Homes website has posted an obituary for Craig Myers which states he was “preceded in death by his close friend, Nicholas Reed.” They were both from New Iberia.

Both men were on the Trinity II liftboat when it was engulfed in Tropical Storm Nate. They fled the vessel with eight other workers in a covered life raft into 70 to 80 mile an hour winds and 20 to 25 foot seas.

Reed was the son of Randy Reed, president of Trinity Liftboat Services, which owned the vessel. The liftboat was contracted by Geokinetics of Houston.

Six workers, including two other workers from the New Iberia area, were rescued. One of the group of survivors who was from Bangladesh later died in a Mexican hospital.

A tenth worker is still missing.

Source: The Advertiser.com