VERACRUZ, Mexico - An intensified air and sea search failed to turn up 10 oil workers who went missing Thursday during now-tropical depression Nate, and there was no word from a dozen fishermen who disappeared aboard two shrimp boats on Friday.
Authorities said they still had found no sign of the oil workers, who abandoned their disabled liftboat for an enclosed life raft in the storm Thursday. The employees of Houston-based Geokinetics Inc. called for help Thursday afternoon after leaving a vessel known as Trinity II around midday. The missing include four U.S. workers, four Mexican workers, one worker from Kazakhstan and a 10th of unconfirmed nationality.
A liftboat can lower legs to the sea floor and then elevate itself above the water level. This one was being used as a recording vessel and housing for the crew, and it was in waters about 25 feet deep.
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