Rescuers look for survivors

For a sixth day, rescue crews returned Sunday to a capsized lift boat in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana, looking for nine crew members who have not been found, the Coast Guard said.

Six people were rescued alive after the Seacor Power lift boat capsized 8 miles off the coast Tuesday in a storm. Four bodies have been found — one Wednesday, one Thursday and two on Friday.

Families of the missing crew members haven’t given up that maybe they found an air pocket or are still alive. “We have hope,” said Marion Cuyl

er. Her fiancee, Chaz Morales, was aboard the vessel.

The bulky vessel flipped over south of Port Fourchon, a major base for the U.S. oil and gas industry. It has three legs it can lower to the sea floor to lift it out of the water as a temporary platform.

Divers are trying to get inside the capsized boat, which has part of its overturned hull and one of its legs above the water where the sea is 50 to 55 feet deep. Rescuers in the air and the water have been searching an area the size of Rhode Island for the missing crew members.

“We are continuing to search,“Coast Guard Petty Officer John Michelli said Sunday. “We’ve basically been 247 since the beginning.”