Whakakiia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko te "Blue Marlin" me tana kaipuke tuahine na Offshore Heavy Transport o Oslo, Norway, mai i to raatau hanganga, i te Paenga-whāwhā 2000 me te Noema 1999, tae noa ki te 6 o Hurae 2001, i hokona ai e Dockwise. I utua e te US Navy te "Blue Marlin" mai i te Offshore Heavy Transport ki te neke i te kaipuke whakangaromanga ki te United States i muri i te kaipuke pakanga
i whakangaromia e ngā kaiwhakatāne whakamomori o Al-Qaeda i a ia e whakatū ana i te tauranga o Aden, Yemen. I te mutunga o te tau 2003, ko nga mahi i mahia i runga i te "Blue Marlin" i whakanui ake i tana kaha me te taapiri i nga miihini e rua hei whakapai ake i te mahi. I uru ano te kaipuke ki te ratonga i te Hanuere 2004. Whai muri i enei whakapainga, ka tukuna e te "Blue Marlin" te papa hinu "Thunder Horse PDQ", he 60,000 tana te taumaha, ki Corpus Christi, Texas, hei whakaoti.