Captains,
13 oil platform workers were saved thanks to Captain Shaw and the crew of the OSV Crystal Clear.
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Panic Kept at Bay in Smooth Rescue Mission
By ROBBIE BROWN
Published: September 2, 2010
In his 20 years as a boat captain, Dan Shaw had never tried to rescue an entire crew out of the water. But on Thursday, he received a radio alert that 13 workers from an oil platform that caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico were bobbing in choppy, fast-flowing waters not far from the flames.
Patrick Semansky/Associated Press
Two workers, left, who were rescued from an oil production platform that exploded walked away from a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter on the roof of Terrebonne General Medical Center in Houma, La., on Thursday.
His boat was 25 miles away, one of the nearest to the scene of the emergency, and he volunteered to find the floating workers.
“We wanted to get to them as fast as we could and make sure we didn’t lose anybody,” said Captain Shaw, 59, one of four workers aboard a 100-foot service vessel, the Crystal Clear.
By the time he arrived around 11 a.m., he said, the men had been floating for two hours and had been swept a mile from the still-flaming platform.
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