Sensors, Controls and Displays 

 of the Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle (DSRV) 



Stanley K. Sezack 



U.S. Naval Applied Science Laboratory 

 Brooklyn, New York 11251 



The Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle (DSRV) being developed under 

 the cognizance of the Navy's Deep Submergence Systems Project Office 

 will be a 50 foot submersible weighing under 60,000 pounds. The sub- 

 mersible will permit the evacuation of personnel from a distressed 

 submarine under all weather conditions, under ice and at depths 

 greater than present submarine collapse depths. Since by nature 

 the rescue system must be a rapid response system, availing itself 

 to any ocean area, the submersible and its support system are being 

 designed to be both land and air transportable. Operationally the 

 submersible will be supported by either a surface ship or a "mother" 

 submarine which will be capable of transporting the submersible in a 

 "piggy back" fashion. The surface support ships will be ASR's of the 

 new catamaran class, which will transport and support two rescue sub- 

 mersibles simultaneously. In addition they will contain a Rescue 

 Control Center from which a rescue operation can be monitored and 

 controlled. Each of the nuclear "mother" submarines, which will 

 permit under ice and all weather operations, will employ a pylon 

 and trapeze assembly mounted above its escape hatch to facilitate 

 transport and docking (mating) of the submersible. The sonar, navi- 

 gation and sensor systems normally carried aboard the fleet "mother" 

 submarine will, to a large extent, perform the function of the Rescue 

 Control Center systems aboard the surface support ship. 



Rescue Submersible 



The hull, external effectors and life support systems of the 

 prototype rescue submersible are being developed by the Lockheed 

 Missiles and Space Company of Sunnyvale, California. The development 

 and integration of sensor, ship control, and control and display 

 systems is being accomplished by Naval laboratories, academic in- 

 stitutes and contractors, under the direction of the Sensors/Ship 

 Control Branch of the Deep Submergence Systems Project Office. 



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