Laybarge floated from Gulf of Mexico seabed

What's left of the derrick laybarge DLB 269 was floated earlier this year from approximately 90 ft where a hurricane in late 1995 had sunk it in the Gulf of Mexico. Smit International, Rotterdam, completed the raising of the 13,000-ton vessel with a team that included the heavy-lift pullbarge Takheave 31, floating sheerlegs Taklift 8, and DSV's Smit Atley and Smit Hunter. (The jet visible at the rear is mud being pumped from the barge's interior.) Copyright 1997 Oil & Gas