Rescue team recovers two more bodies at Kolskaya disaster site
Salvage ship Atlas today recovered two dead bodies of workers from a jack-up drilling rig Kolskaya, ITAR-TASS reported.
The Emergencies Ministry's rescue teems have so far recovered 13 of the 14 dead bodies at the Kolskaya platform disaster site in the Sea of Okhotsk. One body has not yet been raised from water due to the storm. Eleven bodies, recovered earlier, have been delivered at the port of Korsakov based on Sakhalin Island. Identification of the bodies will begin this afternoon.
The Regional Emergencies Ministry Center says search operation will continue, despite the strong winds and a storm forecast. The sea swell may exceed 6-7 meters.
The jack up drilling rig Kolskaya with 67 workers on board capsized and sank off Russia's far eastern island of Sakhalin on Sunday while being towed through a winter storm from Kamchatka to Sakhalin. The Kolskaya is owned by Arktikmorneftegazrazvedka (AMNGR), a unit of state-run Zarubezhneft.