Indian Navy inducted Deep Sea Submarine Rescue System.
News:
Deep Sea Submarine Rescue System Inducted into the Indian Navy at Mumbai
Facts:
- The Indian Navy’s Deep Sea Submarine Rescue System considered to be the most advanced system currently in operation globally, is capable of undertaking rescue from a disabled Submarine up to 650 m depth
- The Indian Navy currently operates submarines of the Sindhughosh, Shishumar, Kalvari Classes as well as nuclear powered submarines.
- The Deep Sea rescue system would have a global footprint and can be mobilized from the Naval base at Mumbai to the nearest mobilization port by air/land or sea to provide rapid rescue to the Submarines in distress.
- The Indian Navy now joins a select league of Nations worldwide with the sovereign capability, in fly away configuration, to search, locate and rescue crew from a disabled Submarine. At present, the US, China, Russia and a few other countries have this capability
Need of Rescue System:
- The operating medium and the nature of operations undertaken by submarines expose them to high degree of inherent risk.
- In such an eventuality, traditional methods of search and rescue at sea are ineffective for a disabled submarine and to overcome this capability gap the Navy has acquired a third generation, advanced Submarine Rescue System.
