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The U.S. Coast Guard has officially suspended its extensive search for a missing crew member from the Indian tanker 'Rainbow Quest' as of January 8. Following a 44-hour search effort, spanning an area of 1,179 square miles about five miles south of Southwest Pass, the Coast Guard concluded that further search operations would not yield results. The alarm was raised by watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector New Orleans when the tanker reported a crewman missing following their 8 a.m. muster on January 7. Prior to the search, the crew conducted thorough sweeps of the vessel but found no signs of the individual, who was identified as wearing an orange jumpsuit when he was last seen on January 6 at 9 p.m. In response to the distress signal, Sector New Orleans mobilized a significant maritime response, deploying two HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircrews from the Coast Guard Aviation Training Center in Mobile, along with four MH-65 Dolphin helicopters from Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans. Additionally, two 45-foot Response Boat — Medium crews from Coast Guard Station Venice, along with the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter 'Pelican,' an 87-foot patrol vessel based out of Abbeville, diligently combed through the area. The search has now been suspended, pending any new developments regarding the situation.

The U.S. Coast Guard has initiated a search operation for an Indian crew member reported missing from the tanker 'Rainbow Quest', which has been anchored approximately five miles south of Southwest Pass since January 7, 2014. The missing individual, identified as 25-year-old Ram Mohan Singh, was last seen wearing an orange jumpsuit on Monday evening at around 9 p.m. The alarm was raised after the vessel's crew conducted a morning muster around 8 a.m. and discovered Singh was unaccounted for. Immediately, the crew undertook thorough sweeps of the ship but found no trace of him, nor were any life jackets reported missing. As part of the search efforts, a number of Coast Guard resources have been deployed, including an MH-65D helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans, an HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircraft from the Coast Guard Aviation Training Center in Mobile, Alabama, and a 45-foot Response Boat-Medium from Coast Guard Station Venice. If you have any information regarding the whereabouts of Ram Mohan Singh, please reach out to Sector New Orleans at (504) 365-2200. For more updates and details, you can refer to the report featuring the search efforts at http://www.uscgnews.com/go/doc/4007/2063522/Coast-Guard-searches-for-missing-Indian-tanker-crewman#sthash.3823bkGg.dpuf.

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