This means US-listed Tidewater, the world’s largest owner of offshore support vessels (OSVs), should end up featuring prominently in the silver screen version of events if, and this is a big if, Hollywood manages to obtain the story rights.

In 2011, nine crew members of Tidewater’s 4,015-dwt platform supply vessel (PSV) Damon B Bankston (built 2002) were officially recognised by the US Coast Guard (USCG) for their role in rescuing 115 survivors after BP’s fatal Deepwater Horizon disaster, which claimed 11 lives on the rig.

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