U.S. NAVY SALVAGE REPORT DEEPWATER HORIZON ... - ESSM

Final Report, SONS Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico, 27 April — 24 September 2010
GPC personnel onshore in Grand Isle continued to support near-shore recovery operations. Two
Class V Skimmers, in the “free skimming” mode without “V” legs of boom, were launched.
Two VOOs to be used to tow additional Class V Skimmers with boom legs had not yet arrived.
However, there were no oil concentrations large enough for effective skimming by the Class V
Systems in the vicinity.
The OSV AHTS Vanguard and OSV MV John Coghill, each with two High Speed Current
Buster VOSS, were onsite at the source conducting skimming operations.
Continued to wait for VOO to install the Class XI Skimmer System.
Note: Total oil recovered to date was 4241 barrels.
Saturday, 29 May 2010
SUPSALV continued coordinating operations from Gulfport (at State Pier) positioning,
maintaining, and operating SUPSALV OSR equipment assets as directed by the USCG FOSC.
The crews continued to move recovered and refurbished Oil Containment Boom and Boom
Mooring systems to BOH Brothers Shipyard.
The total SUPSALV boom in GOMEX was 98,000′ with 30,600′ of Oil Containment Boom
deployed.
There were sixteen Class V Vessel Skimmers with crews pre-positioned at: Slidell (qty 4),
Grand Isle (qty 4), Port Fourchon (qty 2), Ship Island (qty 2), Pascagoula (qty 2), Bayou La
Batre (qty 1), and Pensacola (qty 1), all ready for skimming operations.
The OSV Wes Bordelon, carrying 4000′ of USS-42″ Oil Containment Boom on board, was
underway to East Bay for deployment operations.
GPC personnel onshore in Grand Isle continued to support near-shore recovery operations. Two
Class V Skimmers, in the “free skimming” mode and without towed “V” legs of boom, were on
standby.
The OSV AHTS Vanguard and OSV MV John Coghill, each with two Current Buster VOSS,
were onsite conducting skimming operations.
Continued to wait for VOO to install the Class XI Skimmer System.
Note: Total oil recovered to date was 4754 barrels.
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