One of the four lifeboats supplied by Norway's Umoe Schat-Harding was“catastrophically damaged”during a test of the equipment three weeks ago, according to the US Coast Guard.
A second boat failed visual inspection when cracks were detected, the Coast Guard said. The tests are required by the Coast Guard before it can deem the spar habitable.
“There was a catastrophic failure of one of the life rafts,”confirmed Coast Guard chief of investigations Lieutenant Yancee McLemore in Corpus Christi, Texas.
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