New PSSL Submarine Rescue vehicle

[Ray Shields]

http://www.rovworld.com/phpnuke/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2767&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

TWENTY FOUR lorries required to transport it! Do they take along their own container just for an officers lounge or what? Blimey.

[James McLauchlan]

This is a UK system isn’t it? This is 2008 right? How long has the UK supposedly been using the metric system?

I can only guess that the design must be old they are quoting imperial measurements for depth of operations 😉 Or is it an American system adapted by the UK?

2,000ft – nearly 400ft deeper,….. etc. etc.

I guess all the design specs must be in feet and inches with pressure calcs in Atmospheres.

[Anonymous]

Seems to be designed according NATO standards of the French, Norwegian an British authorities.

http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&q=NATO+SUBMARINE+RESCUE+VEHICLE+SYSTEM&meta=

[Ray Shields]

I thought it was a brand new system designed and built by PSSL. Its UK based but it will be all Americanised of course as they know best…

[mudflap276]

I thought it was a brand new system designed and built by PSSL. Its UK based but it will be all Americanised of course as they know best…

most certainly correct 🙄 lol

[Haddock]

I can assure you metric units were used throughout 😀

Another PSSL Sub was delivered last week, some pics from harbour trials here:

http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/csRq8r0ndi0/Advanced+Rescue+Submarine+Tested+Loch+Linnhe/E_rqpETwFnT

[Salee]

Who’s the "diver" on the sub 😯 ???

[Savante]

thought the lr5 was an old kite??

[Haddock]

thought the lr5 was an old kite??

LR5 goes out of service anytime now, replaced by NSRS from the first post

This is NSRS

The sub on the last link is LR7.

All 3 subs were designed and built by PSSL at Kirkbymoorside, UK – although LR5 has had a major refit since (quite an old boat now!)

[luckyjim37]

The times for deployment are pretty impressive compared with the DSRV the Americans supply. I mobbed that onto the back of a sub for trials. It took nearly two days just to get all of the extra equipment (CO2 absorbtion units oxygen candles etc) down the boat.

Good to see there is still investment in safety in the UK submarine fleet means we may actually get to save some Russians next time.

[Savante]

good picture ! umbilical is spooled along the length of the a-frame leg? where is the winch??

[TEAMJBR]

That might be the heave comp winch line of the LARS.
Man subs tend to be free from attachments to the surface except when a recovery line is connected via the diver!!

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