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
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.
A beached tugboat is retrieved. Also: a sunken dry dock.
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.
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.
Included: the raising of a three-story drilling ship that fell on its side.
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.
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
