Deep Sea Salvage
2009 · 1 season · 6 episodes · Returning Series · History
Reality, Documentary
Who do you call when you've got thousands of tons of gnarled metal over 100 feet deep in the water, threatening to wreak environmental havoc if you don't get it out? The Bisso family of Louisiana has been the answer for more than a century, assembling along history of expertise at incredibly dangerous and highly technical jobs of sea salvage and excavation. At Bisso Marine, they know that death and dismemberment are part of the business--but when it's a family business, those treacherous stakes are ratcheted up even higher
Episodes
- S01E01Deadly Rig2009-07-1345m
Following the salvage work of the New Orleans-based and family-owned Bisso Marine company. In the opener, an attempt is made to raise the leg of a sunken oil rig from the ocean floor.
- S01E02Heavy Metal2009-07-1345m
Included: the raising of a three-story drilling ship that fell on its side.
- S01E03Brink of Disaster2009-07-1345m
A tanker and an oil barge collide on the Mississippi River, and oil leaks from the wreckage and must be stopped before an explosion occurs.
- S01E04Hell Unleashed2009-07-1345m
An oil rig rests on a fuel pipeline and must be towed away before it punctures the pipe; and a barge carrying sulphuric acid is stuck in a swamp.
- S01E05Cursed Treasure2009-07-1345m
A beached tugboat is retrieved. Also: a sunken dry dock.
- S01E06Final Battle2009-07-1345m
A supply ship runs aground in a tropical storm, and a pulley system is rigged to free it. Also: a barge is lifted out of the Mississippi River.
