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When Ciareloch week-end yachtsmen were asked to steer clear of two vivid red buoys just south of the Faslane base, none realised that
100 feet below them submariners and scientists were calmly climbing up and down ladders between two - without getting wet.
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was the Navy's first evaluation of what help a new type of British-operated commercial sumbersible might be able to give to military submarines unable to surface normally,
Now the highly successful trials, conducted by Vickers in conjunction with MOD(Navy), have shown that under some circumstances men can be rescued from titival stjne', hs transferring them into commercial sub-
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mi.'rsihks of a Ispe now in service in North Sea oiltiekls The system can also he used to provide other forms of assistance, including transfer of life support equipment into a submarine unable to surface normally. Two submarines - H.M.S. Otter and the Canadian -submarine FI.Si.C.S. Ojibwa -
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took part in the trials. The submersible was Vickers Oceanics Ltd's VOL LI diver lock-out boat, which had its midship compartment modified by the addition of a bell-shaped mating skirt. The principle is that the submersible makes .i free approach to a submarine on the sea bottom and centres the downward-projecting muting skirt on the transfer port, using hi asi ci', for manoc is ring when contact is tics ed. with he submersible held in place -
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