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Thursday, February 13, 2014

Salvage work on sunk submarine finally kicks off in Mumbai

INS SindhurakshakThe complex salvage operation to "fish out" INS Sindhurakshak and carefully extricate its unexploded missiles and torpedoes is now finally kicking off, six months after the 3,000-tonne submarine sank due to internal explosions and killed three officers and 15 sailors at the Mumbai naval dockyard.

Defence ministry sources on Wednesday said the almost Rs 240 crore salvage contract has been inked with Resolve India, a subsidiary of the US-based Resolve Marine Group, which has to bring its "salvage masters and dive support teams" as well as heavy-duty equipment to the mishap site within 45 days.

The actual salvaging could take another three-four months.

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