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Mammoet Salvage, an engineered heavy lifting and transport company, released a video of what it says was one of the most daring salvage operations ever undertaken in the Gulf of Mexico. The video presents the company’s wreck removal project of the Jupiter 1, that a part of it sank off mexico in April 2011.
The sinking accident caused the evacuation of 638 personnel, after a valve problem caused the platform to take on water.
The company comments on the incident as
An environmental disaster of Deepwater Horizon proportions that was prevented by pulling off a genius plan by a great group of people.
At the time of the incident, water depth in the area was 38 meters (125 feet), and the 50-meter (164-foot) wide platform was left with 13 meters (43 feet)above water levels – only seven meters from active pipelines.
The floatel, owned by Cotemar and managed by PEP, had 2,075 barrels of diesel stored in the pontoons and 82 barrels of jet fuel stored in containers on the deck.
