Government & commercial marine services
Government & marine salvage capability statement.
H2O Boat Tow LLC provides turnkey marine casualty, salvage, abandoned vessel removal and heavy recovery services throughout the United States, with the capability to recover a vessel from the water, transport it over land, and coordinate final storage or disposal.
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The contractor
H2O Boat Tow LLC
Marine casualty response and vessel recovery contractor providing water-to-land recovery capability, specialized shallow-water access, towing, refloating, heavy recovery, transportation, and secure storage coordination.
Michael Hogg — Operations Manager
844-262-8869 | mike@h2oboattow.com
H2OBoatTow.com
8661 Bland Rd, Orange, TX 75956
Core capabilities
- Abandoned and derelict vessel removal
- Submerged vessel recovery and refloating
- Marine lift-bag rigging and dewatering
- Hard-grounding and shallow-water recovery
- Emergency marine towing and casualty response
- Diver-supported recovery operations
- Pollution-conscious vessel stabilization and recovery
- Shore-side recovery, loading, transport and secure storage
- Heavy equipment support and debris/vessel removal logistics
Personnel & qualifications
- 20+ years combined land and marine recovery experience
- USCG-licensed captains
- Multiple TWIC credentialed personnel
- Class A CDL drivers
- Experienced marine towing, salvage and heavy-recovery personnel
Equipment & resources
- Marine recovery/tow vessels including shallow-water jet propulsion capability
- Marine lift bags, pumps and dewatering equipment
- 50-ton rotating crane truck
- Kubota 95 skid steer
- Three 40-ft roll-off containers
- 53-ft Landoll trailer with Class A CDL capability
- Multiple 20-ft flatbed wreckers and medium-duty rollback recovery assets
Representative past performance
30-ft Sun Tracker Pontoon | Toledo Bend Reservoir, Hemphill, TX
Recovered a vessel completely submerged in approximately 30 ft of water using divers, marine lift bags and recovery equipment. Vessel was raised, stabilized, towed to the ramp, loaded onto a medium-duty rollback wrecker and transported to secure storage.
17-ft Tracker | Lake Tawakoni, Quinlan, TX
Recovered a sunk/abandoned vessel in shallow water using lift bags and dewatering pumps while retaining onboard fuel/pollutants. Vessel was refloated, towed to the ramp, transported to secure storage and transferred for IAA retrieval.
22-ft MasterCraft Wake/Ski | Lake Sam Rayburn, Brookeland, TX
Recovered a vessel firmly grounded in hard clay using a jet-propulsion recovery vessel and pump-assisted extraction techniques, demonstrating specialized shallow-water ungrounding capability.
Differentiators
- Water-to-land recovery capability under one coordinated operation
- Marine salvage experience combined with established land-based heavy recovery
- Shallow-water and jet-propulsion recovery capability
- In-house towing, heavy recovery, roll-off, loading and transport assets
- 24/7 emergency response capability
- Ability to coordinate divers, recovery rigging, transportation, storage and disposal
Contract readiness
Target insurance structure aligned to vessel-removal contract requirements; coverage limits and endorsements verified per solicitation prior to representation.
- UEI: Pending SAM activation
- CAGE: Pending SAM activation
- Texas CMBL application submitted
UEI, CAGE and NAICS codes will be published here and on the capability statement once SAM registration is active.
Target work
- Abandoned & derelict vessel (ADV) removal
- Government vessel-removal solicitations
- Marine casualty and insurance recovery
- Storm/debris vessel recovery
- Submerged and grounded vessel removal
- Marine towing and emergency response
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H2O Boat Tow LLC responds to government vessel-removal solicitations, marine casualty and insurance recovery, and storm and debris vessel recovery nationwide. Certificates of insurance and references are provided on request.