Drillship Seacrest
drillship
Current position
No live position received yet. Identity and particulars below.
Identity & particulars
- Name
- Drillship Seacrest
- IMO number
- 7423823
- MMSI
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- Call sign
- —
- Flag
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- Vessel type
- drillship
- Gross tonnage
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- Deadweight (DWT)
- —
- Length overall
- 112 m
- Beam
- —
- Year built
- 1977
- Builder
- —
- Registered owner
- Unocal Corporation
- Operator
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Particulars are enriched from public sources as they become available. Position & identity are derived live from AIS.
About Drillship Seacrest
DS Seacrest, also known as "the Scan Queen", was a drill ship built by Far East Levingston Shipbuilding Ltd., Singapore, owned by Unocal Corporation and operated by Great Eastern Drilling and Engineering company. It was sunk by Typhoon Gay in the Gulf of Thailand on 3 November 1989. Ninety-one rig workers were killed after the vessel capsized, resulting in a massive legal case brought against the ship's owners UNOCAL. There were only six reported survivors: one Indonesian diver and five Thai rig crew, although these figures vary slightly depending on the source, though all of them agree the death toll would make the sinking the 3rd deadliest offshore disaster in history. Many of the bodies were never recovered. Typhoon Gay produced winds of 100 knots (51 m/s) or more with 12-metre (40 ft) waves.
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Drillship Seacrest now?
- Drillship Seacrest has not transmitted a live position recently. Its identity and particulars are kept on this page, and its position will appear here the moment it is detected on AIS again.
- What kind of ship is Drillship Seacrest?
- Drillship Seacrest is a drillship, built in 1977. The vessel is 112 m long.
- Who owns Drillship Seacrest?
- Drillship Seacrest is registered to Unocal Corporation. Ownership data is compiled from public registries and shown free on Seadar.
- Has Drillship Seacrest been detained or sanctioned?
- No detentions or sanctions for Drillship Seacrest appear in the public sources Seadar tracks (USCG PSIX inspections and the OFAC SDN list).