In 2011, Thompson Engineering began the effort to construct a graving dock to dry dock the IP Casino vessel in its current moorings.
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina caused catastrophic damage to many casinos in the area, and a state law that required all casinos float on the water was reversed.
The three-floor casino vessel sat on nine hopper barges welded together as a single unit. The Imperial Palace Casino, better known as IP Casino, was originally constructed in the late 1990s on the south shoreline of Biloxi, Mississippi’s Back Bay as a permanently moored, floating casino. Construction Inspection & Materials Testing.
