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

Final Report, SONS Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico, 27 April — 24 September 2010
between Pascagoula and Pensacola and remained on standby. Skimming operations were to
resume as soon as the weather cleared.
OSV Bayou Bee got underway from Gulfport and Mobile Bay to continue skimmer services.
GPC personnel with OSV Caspian remained in port in Venice because of the weather conducting
equipment loading for future oil containment operations.
GPC personnel onshore in Grand Isle continued to support near-shore recovery operations. All
Class V Skimmers were on standby due to the weather.
In Slidell, two of the four Class V Skimmers at the Rigolets (Lake Pontchartrain area) were
relocated further east into the Mississippi Sound.
OSVs MV John Coghill, AHTS Vanguard, and MV Renee were in the port due to the weather.
Tropical Storm Alex continued to hamper the offshore skimming effort.
Friday, 2 July 2010
SUPSALV OSR equipment and 122 personnel were positioned throughout Panama City,
Pensacola, Mobile, Bayou La Batre, Pascagoula, Gulfport, Ship Island, Slidell, Venice, and Port
Fourchon/Grand Isle.
SUPSALV continued coordinating operations from Gulfport (at State Pier) positioning,
maintaining, and operating SUPSALV OSR equipment assets as directed by the USCG FOSC.
SUPSALV continued assisting CNIC management in Gulfport as required.
The total SUPSALV Oil Containment Boom in GOMEX to date was 98,000′ with 63,200′ of
boom deployed.
Seventeen of eighteen Class V Vessel Skimmers (one Class V Skimmer still in repair), one Class
XI Skimmer System, and all four High Speed Current Buster VOSS with crews were positioned
at the USCG designated locations.
Note: Total oil recovered to date: VOSS offshore - 18,340 barrels and Class V Skimmers nearshore
- 1966 barrels.
No skimming was conducted due to local storms.
The Pecos barge, with two Class V Skimmers on board and four spud/jack-up barges with five
Class V Skimmers on board (assigned to near-shore Task Force under ICP Mobile), operated
between Pascagoula and Pensacola and remained on standby, set to resume skimming operations
as soon as the weather cleared.
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