Ex-SHADWELL / Ex-State of MaineSalvage Report
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August 2007
ForewordHurricane Katrina’s storm surge and high winds funneled up Mobile Bay and shifted twofire test ships from their moor in Little Sand Island near Mobile, Alabama. The Navy andthe Coast Guard’s firefighting and materials test ships Ex USS SHADWELL and T/V-STATE OF MAINE were sufficiently grounded that on October 11
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, CNO authorizedSUPSALV to extract the vessels and return them to proper moors.Seeing this as a training opportunity, Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit (MDSU) ONEdeployed a detachment to provide diving and ground support services to support theextraction. SUPSALV contracted with DONJON for commercial dredging services.This team, lead by SUPSALV salvage engineers, developed a plan, executed it over a 2-1/2 month period, and successfully restored the vessels to their proper positions.This task when coupled with the training opportunity for MDSU divers, provided atangible benefit to both the Naval Research Laboratory and U.S. Coast Guard who wherethe “customers” and the Navy salvage community who gained valuable hands-onexperience in vessel extraction..Well done to the salvage teams who preformed this operation.Richard HooperCaptain, USNDirector of Ocean EngineeringSupervisor of Diving
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On August 31, 2005, Hurricane Katrina brought destructive storm surge and winds into Mobile Bay and caused USCG fire test vessel Ex-T/V-State of Maine (Ex-SO MAINE) and the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) fire test vessel Ex-SHADWELL…
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