{"id":254619,"date":"2026-04-06T21:22:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/254619\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T21:22:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:22:06","slug":"navy-certifies-new-deep-water-rescue-submarine-following-tests-off-san-diego-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/254619\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy certifies new deep water rescue submarine following tests off San Diego \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"

A small new rescue submarine capable of saving 16 people at a time in water up to 2,000 feet deep recently qualified for deployment during manned test drives off Naval Air Station North Island.<\/p>\n

The Navy describes the Submarine Rescue Diving and Recompression System as a 49-foot tethered, fly-away rescue vehicle that can be rapidly deployed around the world within 96 hours to carry out open-hatch rescues.<\/p>\n

The sub, which can be transported by air and truck and placed on a variety of ships, will be operated by the Navy\u2019s Underwater Rescue Command, which is based in Coronado. The command is the sole unit<\/a> dedicated to performing such rescues.<\/p>\n

The unit, which arose from a program dating to the 1960s, has never been asked to rescue sailors trapped in a submarine in the open ocean, during combat or disaster missions, the Navy says. But it is on 24-hour standby if needed.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur Submarine Force operates, along with our allies and partners, in challenging undersea environments that span the entire globe,\u201d the Navy said in a statement.<\/a> \u201cIt is critical for us to have an undersea rescue capability that underpins the extensive training our submariners receive and that allows us to respond worldwide in the event of a distressed submarine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A small new rescue submarine capable of saving 16 people at a time in water up to 2,000…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,5493,181,23,1703,100,74,84,76,75,1696],"class_list":{"0":"post-254619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-coronado","10":"tag-latest-headlines","11":"tag-local-news","12":"tag-military","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-san-diego","15":"tag-san-diego-county","16":"tag-san-diego-headlines","17":"tag-san-diego-news","18":"tag-top-stories-sdut"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}