Exhibit No. 10.30


                      PARTIAL SATISFACTION OF MORTGAGE

     Wilmington   Trust    Company,   A   Delaware    banking   corporation
("Mortgagee"), with an office at  Rodney Square North, Wilmington, Delaware
19890, as Trustee  for the  benefit of The  CIT Group/Equipment  Financing,
Inc., a New  York corporation ("Lender"), with an office  at 1211 Avenue of
the Americas, 21st Floor, New York, New York 10036, under the Master Vessel
Trust Agreement dated December  22, 1989 between the Mortgagee  and Lender,
said Trustee being  the sole Mortgagee,  does hereby  certify that a  First
Preferred Ship  Mortgage, made and dated October  14, 1993, recorded in the
office  of the documentation officer  at New Orleans,  Louisiana on October
15, 1993 in Book PM-246,  Page I-81 on October 15, 1993 at 10:41 a.m., made
and  executed  by  ENSCO  Marine  Company  filed  with the  office  of  the
documentation  officer at New Orleans, Louisiana  in the original aggregate
amount of  TWENTY-FIVE MILLION AND  NO/100 DOLLARS ($25,000,000.00)  on the
whole of  the Vessels attached hereto  as Exhibit A plus  other Vessels set
forth  in said  Mortgage,  all home  ported at  New Orleans,  Louisiana, is
satisfied as to only  those Vessels set forth on Exhibit A  hereto and does
consent that  the same Mortgage  be discharged of  record only as  to those
Vessels set forth on Exhibit A hereto.

     Said Mortgage shall remain in full force and effect with all its terms
and conditions as to the remaining Vessels set forth in said Mortgage.


     DATED the 29th day of November, 1994.


                              WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY


                              BY:  /s/ JAMES LAWLER
                                   ______________________
                                   JAMES LAWLER, V.P.





THE STATE OF NEVADA      :     
COUNTY OF CLARK          :


     I, the  undersigned, Notary Public,  in and for  the State  of Nevada,

County  of Clark,  hereby certify  that James  Lawler,  personally appeared

before me in said district, being personally known to  me as the person who

executed the aforesaid instrument  and acknowledged the same to be  his act

and deed as said officer.


     GIVEN UNDER MY  HAND AND SEAL  OF OFFICE, this  29th day of  November,

1994.


                                   /s/ DIANE A. MOHLER
                                   __________________________________

                                   NOTARY PUBLIC


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                            EXHIBIT "A"


VESSEL NAME                OFFICIAL NO.           HOME PORT
- -----------                ------------           ---------

ENSCO ADVENTURER              606730              New Orleans

ENSCO CRUSADER                613095              New Orleans

ENSCO HUNTER                  605365              New Orleans

ENSCO SEARCHER                628633              New Orleans