One of the newest and fastest submarine rescue vehicles (SRVs), capable of carrying up to 17 people, has been deployed in the Western Pacific.
A boat coming to a halt at sea is one thing. A naval submarine, stranded below the surface, is quite another. Time is of the essence if the crew are to survive.
“A distressed [naval] submarine weighs tens of thousands of tonnes. Even if there was a way to do it, you can’t possibly lift the submarine out all in one piece, and certainly not in time to rescue all the people inside,” says Chris Buckle, Senior Operations Manager and Defence Specialist at Forum Energy Technologies.
The answer is submersible rescue vehicles (SRVs), like the LR11, which can rescue 17 crew per trip from submarines as deep as 600 meters.
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