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

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Final Report, SONS Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico, 27 April — 24 September 2010<br />

OSV Bayou Bee in vicinity of Mobile Bay was ready to continue skimmer services.<br />

GPC personnel with OSV Caspian were in port in Venice because of the weather.<br />

GPC personnel onshore in Grand Isle continued to support near-shore recovery operations. All<br />

Class V Skimmers operated as weather permitted.<br />

OSVs MV John Coghill, AHTS Vanguard, and MV Renee remained in port due to the weather.<br />

SUPSALV was notified by ICP Houma to pull the OSV MV John Coghill offline for additional<br />

tasking and replace it with OSV Vantage. SUPSALV will begin demobilizing the two High<br />

Speed Current Buster VOSS and associated equipment/boom cranes from OSV MV John<br />

Coghill as weather permitted. No EDA for OSV Vantage as yet.<br />

Tropical Storm Alex continued to hamper the offshore skimming effort.<br />

Saturday, 3 July 2010<br />

SUPSALV OSR equipment and 122 personnel were positioned throughout Pensacola, Mobile,<br />

Bayou La Batre, Pascagoula, Gulfport, Ship Island, Slidell, Venice, and Port Fourchon/Grand<br />

Isle.<br />

SUPSALV continued coordinating operations from Gulfport (at State Pier) positioning,<br />

maintaining, and operating SUPSALV OSR equipment assets as directed by the USCG FOSC.<br />

SUPSALV continued to assist CNIC management team in Gulfport as required.<br />

The total SUPSALV Oil Containment Boom in GOMEX to date was 98,000′ with 63,200′ of<br />

boom deployed.<br />

Seventeen of eighteen Class V Vessel Skimmers, one Class XI Skimmer System, and all four<br />

High Speed Current Buster VOSS with crews were positioned at the USCG designated locations.<br />

Note: Total oil recovered to date: VOSS offshore - 18,340 barrels and Class V Skimmers nearshore<br />

- 1966 barrels. Very little skimming was conducted due to high winds.<br />

The Pecos barge, with two Class V Skimmers and four spud/jack-up barges with five Class V<br />

Skimmers on board (assigned to near-shore Task Force under ICP Mobile), operated between<br />

Pascagoula and Pensacola remained on standby to resume skimming operations as soon as<br />

weather permitted.<br />

OSV Bayou Bee was near Mobile Bay area ready to continue skimmer services.<br />

GPC personnel with OSV Caspian were in port at Venice due to the weather.<br />

GPC personnel onshore in Grand Isle continued to support near-shore recovery operations. No<br />

oil was encountered during the Class V Skimmer operations.<br />

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