A Bangladeshi oil worker, one of seven rescued Sunday in the southern Gulf of Mexico after being adrift for three days during Tropical Storm (TS) Nate, has died in a Mexican hospital.

The Associated Press reported Monday that an official with Mexico’s state-owned petroleum company, Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), announced that Kham Nadimuzzaman died Sunday night at a Pemex regional hospital in Ciudad del Carmen, a port city in Campeche state. The official was not identified.

Nadimuzzaman was one of 10 oil workers missing from a disabled liftboat, seven of whom were found alive on Sunday. The Mexican Navy said Sunday that Nadimuzzaman and the other survivors were transported to the hospital by one of their helicopters. The Pemex official told the AP that Nadimuzzaman arrived at the hospital in very grave condition and the other six were in stable condition, but the Mexican Navy said two of the rescued men were in serious condition.

In a separate statement Sunday, Pemex said two Americans, Jeremy Parfait and Ted Derise Jr., were among the survivors. The company did not reveal their home state but media reports said they were both from Louisiana. The other survivors were Ruben Velasquez, Eleaquin Lopez, Luis Escobar and Ruben Lopez Villalobos, all from Mexico.

The fate of two other Americans — identified by media reports as Craig Myers and Nick Reed, both from Louisiana — was unclear Monday.

Rescuers also recovered two bodies, which had not been identified. The Mexican Navy said two ships — the Bourbon Artazabe and the Arbol Grande — found four survivors and one body on a life raft, and three survivors and one body in the water. All of the men were found 92 kilometers (57 miles) off the coast of Campeche state.

A tenth worker remains missing. Pemex said four company helicopters, plus three helicopters and two aircraft from the Mexican Navy, were continuing the search for the remaining oil worker.

The 10 missing workers had been aboard the Trinity II, a liftboat supporting an ocean bottom cable project in the Bay of Campeche for Geokinetics Inc., a Houston-based company that performs seismic testing for the oil and gas industry (see Daily GPI, Sept. 12). Geokinetics said Monday that three of the workers were Geokinetics employees, three were independent contractors and four were crew members of the Trinity II, a ship owned by Trinity Liftboat Services (TLS) of New Iberia, LA. The AP said Reed is the son of Randy Reed, the owner of TLS.

Geokinetics said Friday that TS Nate disabled the liftboat and forced the crew to abandon ship and board a life raft on Thursday afternoon. The inclement weather from TS Nate prevented rescuers from reaching the crew until Sunday. The company said the Trinity II has since been secured.

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