Our Story

Jason was one week from turning 27 years old, the youngest member of the crew, when he disappeared due to the Seacor Power disaster. The loss of Jason is a huge impact to all that love him, to his entire family, but no more so than to his mother, his father, and his sister.

Please help us honor him by clicking the button below to view his life in pictures and by supporting our mission to save lives through addressing one of the offshore industry’s safety gaps (oil & gas, wind energy, merchant mariners, etc).

At approx 3:30pm Cst on April 13, 2021, the biggest maritime disaster in Louisiana's history, regarding the loss of life, occurred. More people lost their lives than in the BP Deep Water Horizon disaster in 2010. The Seacor Power liftboat, with (19) crewmen onboard, just a few miles from the mouth of Port Fourchon Louisiana, in only 55 ft of water, flipped on it's side in severe weather. (16) crewmen were behind closed doors inside the four story living quarter structure, including Jason, (2) men were in the bridge on top of the living quarters, and (1) crewman was working inside one of the two engine rooms within the hull of the boat.

(6) crewmen were rescued the same night of the capsize, (6) other crewmen were found deceased in the following eight days of an intense air, water surface, and diver vessel search, and (7) crewmen have never been found, including our precious loved one Jason.

In response to what we learned through the Seacor Power tragedy, Jason's Beacon was formed as a nonprofit in Texas by the mother, sister, and aunt of Jason. We learned that finding individuals lost at sea is extremely difficult and too often unsuccessful.

We learned that there are life saving PLBs - Personal Locator Beacons that individuals out to sea can use for open water rescue. They work by sending a signal within seconds of being activated to a network of satellites that then notify search and rescue operations, such as the US Coast Guard, of the person's GPS location. They are so small they can be put in a pocket, attached to a belt, worn around the neck, or attached to a life jacket. At the time of the Seacor disaster, we found out that the vast majority of U.S. offshore workers are not provided life saving PLBs by the companies they work for, to wear while they are in transport by boat and on locations working offshore, and the devices are cost prohibitive for many individual workers.

During our first five years, Jason's Beacon, through generous donations from others, has been able to purchase and gift over 400 PLBs to US offshore workers and advocate to employers to adopt PLBs as standard safety devices for all offshore employees.

We have celebrated during this 5 year period when the company Fugro implemented PLBs for their U.S. offshore workers in 2022 and we learned that Wind Energy companies were already requiring PLBs be worn on their employees. Now after 5 years of advocacy, we've learned that more U.S. Oil & Gas companies are doing the right thing, such as Chevron, and voluntarily adopting PLBs as standard safety devices for their U.S. offshore workers.

Due to the long awaited adoption of PLBs by more U.S. companies, we are no longer providing free PLBs and instead we encourage those currently employed or hoping to to be employed in the U.S. offshore industry to only work with a company that confirms they provide them to all their employees going out to sea.