Cross Marine Projects provides marine drilling vessels and services in remote and challenging marine locations. The Lake Sevier Drilling project required drilling of hundreds of holes in shallow water and mud. Our amphibious drilling platform and marsh master transport vessels provide access to locations inaccessible to traditional barges and boats. Read more »

Our custom marine salvage grapple assists commercial divers in recovering undesirable wreckage from sensitive marine environments. It is compatible with a variety of heavy lifting machinery. This method of recovery is a cost effective way to remove wreckage debris with little salvage value.

Cross Marine Projects also specializes in non-destructive underwater recovery methods of boats and other sunken vessels that have salvage or repair value. We have successfully recovered large multi-story house boats without compromising the integrity of the boat. This allowed the owners to repair the houseboats and other vessels instead of suffering a complete loss.

Crews mobilizing a customized Wilco Amphibious Buggy that will be used for underwater surveying and drilling in remote and rugged aquatic terrain. The amphibious vessel is capable of supporting a complete dive station, drilling equipment and other heavy pieces of equipment in shallow water, muddy marshes and semi-aquatic environments un-navigatable by marine vessels or land vehicles.

The containment dam near Grace, Idaho where Cross Marine Projects was tasked with cutting a hole through the dam while it was filled with water.
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Commercial diver Alan Cody prepares to examine an underwater portion of pipe, while Cross Marine Projects crew members Aaron Rasmussen and John Cross operate the diver support systems and dive boat on the Colorado River south of Moab, Utah, November 9, 2011.

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An old underwater pipeline is to be removed from the Colorado River to prevent environmental degredation of the area. Jim Cross and his crew survey the pipeline preparatory to removing it. Much of the pipeline is currently buried under tons of silt which will require special techniques that Cross Marine Projects has used successfully under similar fast moving water conditions.

Jim’s technique will cause the sediment to release the pipe without the use of heavey excavation equipment that would not be able to cope with strong currents and site conditions. Once released from the sediment, the entire section of pipeline will be removed from the river preventing potential environmental issues.

Cross Marine Projects and ABC 4′s Brent Hunsaker discuss flooding on Utah Lake. To view the video report or to read the full transcript, visit ABC 4 News’ website: Are we in a flooding replay of 1983

News Report Excerpt:

“Compromise is the point at which lake water starts going places where it’s not supposed to go. At four feet over compromise, lake water will flood the pump house at the mouth of the Jordan River – Utah Lake’s only relief value. Losing those pumps could choke down the outflow from the lake.

Jim Cross has seen it before. It was 1983 and his fledgling company was in the middle of the damage control effort.

They dredged around the Jordan River pumps; used barges to get to water-logged homes; pulled steel gas lines across the Great Salt Lake to the location of a new pumping station in the West Desert. That pumping station was built too late to help with the flood of ’83, but may still play a roll in flooding in 2011.”

Cross Marine working with Scripps Institute of Oceanography are prepping seismic OBS Receivers for underwater deployment at remote locations in Salton Sea, California. The OBS Receivers are transported on custom survey barges and specialized marine work boats.

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Cross Marine Projects performing lake bottom silt deposition surveys at Tibble Fork Reservoir, Utah, with one of Cross Marine’s custom pneumatic shallow draft survey boats to determing the silt buildup since construction of the Tibble Fork Dam.

Cross Marine Projects inspecting a sunken shipwreck at Departure Bay in Nanaimo B.C. using a Seamor ROV.