Cika wannan jumla: "Blue Marlin" da 'yar'uwarta sun kasance mallakar kamfanin Offshore Heavy Transport na Oslo, Norway, daga ginin su, a watan Afrilu na 2000 da Nuwamba na 1999, har zuwa 6 ga Yuli 2001, lokacin da Dockwise ta saya su. Rundunar sojan ruwa ta Amurka ta yi hayar "Blue Marlin" daga Ofishin Jirgin Sama na Jirgin Sama don mayar da jirgin ruwan zuwa Amurka bayan jirgin yaƙi
'yan kunar bakin wake na Al-Qaeda ne suka lalata jirgin yayin da ya sauka a tashar jiragen ruwa ta Aden, Yemen. A ƙarshen shekara ta 2003, aikin da aka yi a kan "Blue Marlin" ya kara ƙarfinsa kuma ya kara masu motsawa guda biyu don inganta haɓaka. Jirgin ya sake shiga sabis a watan Janairun 2004. Bayan wadannan ci gaba, "Blue Marlin" ya ba da dandalin mai "Thunder Horse PDQ", mai nauyin tan 60,000, zuwa Corpus Christi, Texas, don kammalawa.