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

Final Report, SONS Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico, 27 April — 24 September 2010
Sunday, 30 May 2010
SUPSALV continued coordinating operations from Gulfport (at State Pier) which consisted of
positioning, maintaining, and operating SUPSALV OSR equipment assets as directed by the
USCG FOSC. Movement of USS-42″ Oil Containment Boom and Boom Mooring Systems to
BOH Brothers Shipyard was completed. Two thousand feet of the 19,000′ of USS-42″ Oil
Containment Boom used in Mobile Bay was damaged beyond repair.
The total SUPSALV Oil Containment Boom in GOMEX was 98,000′ with 32,100′ of Oil
Containment Boom deployed.
Sixteen Class V Vessel Skimmers with crews pre-positioned in 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 from Venice deployed 1,500′ of USS-42″ Oil Containment Boom before
operations were secured due to the weather. The OSV Wes Bordelon returned to port and loaded
2000′ USS-42″additional Oil Containment Boom for a total of 4,500′. Weather kept the vessel in
port at Venice.
GPC personnel onshore in Grand Isle continued to support near-shore recovery operations. Two
Class V Skimmers in the “free skimming mode” were still on standby. Two additional Class V
Skimmers were now in the water. The VOOs obtained to tow the four Class V Skimmer
Systems arrived and underwent inspection for suitability. Crew training was conducted.
Operational training of VOOs with the Class V Skimmers was to commence over the next few
days. There was no significant oil concentration large enough for effective skimming in any of
the locations to which the Class V Skimmers had been assigned.
The OSV AHTS Vanguard and OSV MV John Coghill, each with two High Speed Current
Buster VOSS, were onsite conducting skimming operations.
A suitable VOO was identified and scheduled to arrive in the next day or so for installation of the
Class XI Skimmer System.
Note: Total oil recovered to date was 5012 barrels.
Monday, 31 May 2010
SUPSALV continued coordinating operations from Gulfport (at State Pier) which consisted of
positioning, maintaining, and operating SUPSALV OSR equipment assets as directed by the
USCG FOSC.
Total SUPSALV Oil Containment Boom in GOMEX was 98,000′ with 33,600′ deployed.
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