Indian, US Navies to undertake submarine rescue operations

If an Indian submarine gets "disabled" deep underwater, the sailors are sunk since the country has only rudimentary submarine rescue facilities.

Now, in a unique and complex endeavour, Indian and US Navies are coming together to practice the rescue of "trapped" submariners from deep under the sea.

The Indo-US submarine rescue exercise will start later this month, with the US Navy slated to fly down a submarine rescue system - a deep-submergence rescue vessel (DSRV) or a submarine rescue chamber (SRC) — to Mumbai, say sources.

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