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

Final Report, SONS Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico, 27 April — 24 September 2010
GPC placed orders for mooring systems through a commercial source. The commercial source
only provided 25 of the 50 mooring systems ordered. GPC assembled 15 complete and 15
partial systems from spares at the ESSM bases. Other components (mainly anchors) would be
obtained commercially as needed.
Oil Containment Boom deployment operations were delayed due to an engineering problem on
the OSV MV John Coghill.
All Oil Containment Boom requested in Venice arrived. Manning was increased from a
workforce of six to approximately 12 in preparation of anticipated Oil Containment Boom laying
operations in Venice.
The base of operations at Gulfport was reconfigured to accommodate SUPSALV and
commercial operations on the pier as well as for efficiency.
Another VOSS Current Buster System, from ESSM Base Williamsburg, was ordered as a spare
to provide improved sustainability of potential future distant offshore VOSS skimming
operations from the OSV MV John Coghill.
Tuesday, 4 May 2010
A mission’s briefing and tour was conducted for the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), Chief of
Naval Personnel (CNP), Commander Naval Installations Command (CNIC), and Commander,
Naval Sea Systems Command (COMNAVSEASYSCOM). Admiral Gary Roughead, CNO,
attended. See Figure 9.
Figure 9. Admiral Gary Roughead, CNO, Visits the Gulfport, MS
State Port (West) Command Post
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