DEEP SUBMERGENCE RESCUE VEHICLE (DSRV) COMPLEX

About:

• The DSRV Complex is designed to accommodate the newly inducted Submarine Rescue System with state of the art facilities to store the DSRV assets in a Rescue-Ready state.
  
  
• The DSRV system consists of a Submarine Rescue Vessel, a Remote Operations Vehicle, Side Scan Sonar and associated equipment. It also has Diver Decompression Chambers and hyperbaric medical equipment to decompress submariners after being rescued from a sunken submarine.
  
  
• The DSRV system can be rapidly mobilised by air or road to facilitate submarine rescue operations even at distant locations.
  
  
• The Indian Navy has inducted two such systems which will provide rescue cover to submarines on the West and East coast of India respectively.
  
  
• Currently, there are about 40 nations that operate submarines in the world out of which only a few have any form of submarine rescue capability.