The United States Coast Guard is continuing its search and rescue operation for the missing Filipino offshore oil worker who fell off an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico over the weekend, the Philippine Embassy in Washington said Tuesday (Manila time).

A statement from the embassy said they were informed by the Coast Guard that the search for 38-year-old Peter Jorge Voces included two cutters, two helicopters, two fixed-wing aircraft and six civilian offshore supply vessels.

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