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

Final Report, SONS Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico, 27 April — 24 September 2010
TABLE OF CONTENTS
A. Executive Summary ..................................................................................................................... 1
B. Chronology of Events ................................................................................................................... 2
C. Problems Encountered .............................................................................................................. 109
D. Lessons Learned and Recommendations ................................................................................. 110
E. Equipment Mobilized ............................................................................................................... 115
F. Equipment Evaluation .............................................................................................................. 117
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1. Daily Team Briefings .....................................................................................................3
Figure 2. ESSM Gear Continuous Arrival at Gulfport, MS State Docks ......................................4
Figure 3. 4000′ of Oil Containment Boom with Boom Mooring
Systems On Board the OSV MV John Coghill .............................................................4
Figure 4. Class V Vessel Being Offloaded in Gulfport, MS .........................................................5
Figure 5. SUPSALV Venice, LA Deepwater Horizon Support Site .............................................6
Figure 6. Oil Containment Boom Deployed off the Western Tip
of Ship Island in a Cascade Configuration ....................................................................7
Figure 7. Command Trailer Arrival ..............................................................................................8
Figure 8. Command Van and Command Trailer Setup .................................................................8
Figure 9. Admiral Gary Roughead, CNO, Visits the Gulfport, MS State Port
(West) Command Post ...................................................................................................9
Figure 10. Assembling the Outrigger Assembly on the OSV AHTS Vanguard ...........................10
Figure 11. West New Harbor Island ..............................................................................................12
Figure 12. OSV AHTS Vanguard Recovering Spilled Oil Using
High Speed Current Buster ..........................................................................................13
Figure 13. Oil and Debris Mix in Pocket of High Speed Current Buster VOSS ..........................14
Figure 14. Oil and Debris Mix on Weir Skimmer in High Speed Current Buster VOSS .............19
Figure 15. SUPSALV Slidell, LA Support Site on Barge at Rigolets ..........................................23
Figure 16. Crude Oil Rolling off Skimmer Belt ............................................................................33
Figure 17. Skimming Using the Outrigger Assembly and Class XI Skimmer System .................40
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