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

Final Report, SONS Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico, 27 April — 24 September 2010
Boom deployment operations resumed. Two thousand feet of USS-42″ Oil Containment Boom
was deployed near Ship Island in cascading configurations along with previously deployed Oil
Containment Boom. Another 2000′ of USS-24″ Oil Containment Boom was loaded onto the
OSV MV John Coghill. SUPSALV gear continued to arrive in Gulfport (State Pier West) for
staging.
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
The Federal Reserve Asset Staging Unit in Gulfport began reporting to the Area/Unified
Command (headquartered in Roberts, LA) for resource allocation vice the Incident Command
Post (ICP) (Houma, LA sector). The ICP Houma, LA sector and the ICP in Mobile, AL, were
tasked to submit requests through the Area/Unified Command for SUPSALV Oil Spill Response
(OSR) equipment assets. Operationally SUPSALV worked under the ICPs.
Oil containment boom deployment operations continued. An additional 2000′ of USS-42″ Oil
Containment Boom was deployed from the OSV MV John Coghill, near Ship Island, in a
cascade configuration with the previously deployed Oil Containment Boom. Command, Shop,
and Rigging Vans were sent to Venice, LA to support oil containment operations near that site.
ICP Mobile sector requested a Class V Skimmer System and two BHBs with full support crews
to be staged in Pensacola, FL and on Dauphin Island, AL in Mobile Bay. Two Current Buster
VOSS were rigged (both port and starboard) on board the OSV Anchor Handling Tow and
Supply (AHTS) Vanguard at Gulf Port for source skimming operations. See Figure 10.
Figure 10. Assembling the Outrigger Assembly on the OSV AHTS Vanguard
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