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Thursday, February 20, 2014

Elite Navy rescue team always on call to help submariners

Submarine Parachute Assistance GroupThe Royal Navy’s Submarine Parachute Assistance Group (SPAG) is a specialist emergency rescue team on constant standby to travel to stricken submarines.

The highly-trained group was formed in the 1960s when Naval commanders decided they needed to be able to get experts to the site of a submarine emergency as quickly as possible.

Made up of a mix of medics, engineers and submarine escape specialists taken from all Services, the team is on six hours notice to take-off all year round. At RAF Brize Norton a C-130 Hercules transport plane is on standby to ferry them to the scene.

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