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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Navy lacks rescue vehicle to save submarine crew

DSRV-1 MysticAmidst the spate of incidents involving submarines, a grim fact has come to the fore: Indian Navy does not have a single Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle (DSRV).

The navy had acquired one such vessel when it possessed only four submarines in 1971. But the vessel was decommissioned in 1989. Since then, the Indian Navy has not been able to procure a single DSRV even though the number of submarines in its fleet has increased.

DSRVs like INS Nistar, the only one that figured in the Indian Navy's fleet so far, have the capability of rescuing the crew of a disabled submarine by using a wet or a dry escape method, avoiding the problems associated with decompression.

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