Kongsberg Support NATO Sub Rescue Trials
Engineers from Kongsberg Maritime have been in the thick of the action in France and Norway during a combined trial and military exercise period involving the NATO Submarine Rescue System (NSRS). The NSRS is an extensive project by the French, Norwegian and UK Navies, to provide a fast response, highly mobile, distressed submarine (DISSUB) rescue platform. Kongsberg Maritime played a role in the development of the NSRS, having supplied navigation, underwater positioning and communications for the new Submarine Rescue Vessel (SRV) and ROV, in addition to developing a Portable Navigation and Command Tracking System (PNTCS) designed to permit the Commander of Rescue Forces (CRF) to locate, and position a DISSUB. The PNTCS is based on commercial components configured and packaged for naval operations in very harsh environments. It integrates inputs from numerous navigation sensors to provide a world image of the location of the DISSUB and its orientation, the SRV and any cooperating ROVs, with
underwater positioning provided by the HPR 400 system and MST Transponders. The PNTCS is housed in one easily deployable 8 foot by 10 foot ISO container of which the NSRS will use two, to ensure that multiple vessels can share the same data during rescue operations. The combined trials and exercise period, which saw NSRS operating at sea for 3 weeks, was supported by Keith Needham and Mike Duffin of Kongsberg Maritime Ltd in Portsmouth, who have both been instrumental in installing the Kongsberg Maritime equipment for the project. During trials, the Submarine Rescue Vessel (SRV) dived and mated with a target in 600m of water (the deepest ever mate by any rescue vessel) in Hardanger Fjord and took part in its first NATO exercise.
ST Marine Launches Sub Support, Rescue Vessel
Singapore Technologies Marine Ltd. (ST Marine) launched Swift Rescue, ASEAN's first Submarine Support and Rescue Vessel (SSRV) on Saturday, November 29, 2008 at its main yard in Benoi. ST Marine had conceptualized, designed and built Swift Rescue to enable it with the primary capability of submarine rescue as well as fulfill other secondary roles. This 85 x 18-m vessel is equipped with a DPS-2 dynamic positioning system, and also a helicopter deck and unique operational spaces to meet the requirements of the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN). It will house a sophisticated Submarine Rescue Vessel (SRV) to rescue personnel from a submarine in distress up to a depth of 500 m.
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