Video: “United Canjun Navy” continues search for Seacor survivors
A privately funded search for survivors of the liftship Seacor Power disaster is being conducted by the self-styled “United Canjun Navy”.
An all-volunteer group called the United Cajun Navy is continuing the search for survivors of the capsized liftship, Seacor Power, that capsized in the Gulf of Mexico last week, three days after the official search by the USCG was called off.
The Cajun Navy is calling for donations to help fund the search that is primarily being conducted from the air, and has raised $65,000 to date. The group is using the donations to pay for the fuel for the two seaplanes it is using to scour an area of about 9,000 square nautical miles.
“Seacor has been trying, they really have. But let me tell you, Coast Guard sure needs an uplifting in their organization,” said Scott Daspit, the father of missing crewmember Dylan Daspit, in a social media video Thursday.
“Number two, the [charterer] Talos Energy, they should be ashamed of themselves. The CEO, no one has contacted [us] or sent a representative down here. The families are hurting, and no one in that operating company has the compassion to come down and visit with us here. Nor did they think about trying to help us with seaplanes.”
