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Saturday, October 04, 2014

Mystic arrives at new home

Mystic (Navy DSRV 1)Mary Ryan and Jennifer Heinzelman watched for the arrival of their new artifact with the excitement of art museum curators waiting for the arrival of a Rembrandt or Van Gogh.

Their latest artifact is indeed a masterpiece — not of art, but of life-saving technology.

The newest addition to Ryan and Heinzelman’s collection is Mystic, one of two Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicles, or DSRVs, developed by Lockheed for the U.S. Navy. The 49-foot, 38-ton submarine-shaped vessel was launched in 1970 and retired in 2008, when it was succeeded by the Submarine Rescue Diving and Recompression System or, in Navy parlance, the SRDRS.

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