U.S. NAVY SALVAGE REPORT DEEPWATER HORIZON ... - ESSM
U.S. NAVY SALVAGE REPORT DEEPWATER HORIZON ... - ESSM
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 />
Venice GPC personnel on OSV Caspian got underway from Venice to Breton Island to conduct<br />
Oil Containment Boom repairs.<br />
Skimmer operations and equipment training were conducted at the Slidell operations site.<br />
GPC personnel in Grand Isle continued conducting shoreline and near-shore-skimming<br />
operations. No oil product was encountered.<br />
OSVs AHTS Vanguard and Vantage with VOSS got underway conducting offshore support at<br />
MC252 site; skimming resumed.<br />
OSV MV Renee, with Class XI Skimmer System, remained in Gulfport awaiting a new crane.<br />
The second phase of the A Whale operational test resumed after ship modifications. One<br />
SUPSALV and one GPC observer were on board.<br />
Thursday, 15 July 2010<br />
SUPSALV OSR equipment and 128 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 the CNIC management team.<br />
The total SUPSALV Oil Containment Boom in GOMEX to date was 98,000′ with 60,700′ of<br />
boom deployed.<br />
Note: Total oil recovered to date: VOSS offshore - 20,487 barrels and Class V Skimmers nearshore<br />
- 1975 barrels.<br />
Pecos barge, with two Class V Skimmers and four spud/jack-up barges with seven Class V<br />
Skimmers on board (assigned to near-shore Task Force under ICP Mobile), operated between<br />
Pascagoula and Pensacola as directed.<br />
OSV Bayou Bee continued Class V Skimmer service operations.<br />
The Bay St. Louis site continued planning of herding and/or capturing and recovering oil using<br />
4000′ of USS-18″ Oil Containment Boom, and Ship Island boom repairs awaited assignment of<br />
suitable work platforms.<br />
Captain Gunzel from SUPSALV went to ICP Mobile for an Operations Planning Meeting<br />
regarding Navy Airship.<br />
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