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Monday, October 15, 2007

Firm completes £30m rescue sub

A firm in Ryedale is celebrating after designing and making an underwater vessel designed to rescue people from submarines in distress.

Perry Slingsby Systems Limited, in Kirkbymoorside, has just built NATO's "Rescue Submersible" - which has the capability to rescue 15 people at a time - for the governments of the UK, Norway and France.

The submersible has been built to replace the vessel that was involved in the rescue efforts to save the crew of the Russian nuclear submarine, Kursk, which grounded on the sea bed in August 2000.

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