U.S. Coast Guard Marine Safety Unit Galveston personnel are working with Ensco International to recover the submerged mobile offshore oilrig ENSCO 74, which was accidentally discovered last weekend after a 900-foot tanker ship carrying 41 million gallons of crude oil struck it. The SKS Satilla began taking on water March 6 about 65 miles south of Galveston, Texas. During the Coast Guard's inspection of the vessel a large gash was discovered in the hull, so an underwater submersible was used to retrace the SKS Satilla's course. And it found the ENSCO 74 rig submerged at a depth of about 24-feet, 70-miles south of Galveston. The rig went missing off the coast of Louisiana during Hurricane Ike on September 1, 2008.
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
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