RESCUE UNDERWATER VEHICLE Russian patent published in 2008 - IPC B63G8/00 B63G8/40 

FIELD: transport.

SUBSTANCE: rescue underwater vehicle (RUV) incorporates a hermetic control compartment and a rescue compartment with life-support and decompression means arranged in a solid chamber, a vacuum chamber, an electrical equipment, a propeller-steering assembly with the control system and a stabilisation system. At the center of RUV gravity, an additional smaller hermetic compartment is arranged representing a diver's chamber coupled with the standard air pressurisation system and communicating with the vacuum chamber via a hermetically sealed hatch in the chamber bottom part. Note that the diver's chamber is arranged between the control compartment and the rescue compartment to communicate with them via hermetically-sealed hatches arranged in its bulkheads. The proposed RUV design allows the rescue of the submarine crew by both traditional "dry" and "wet" methods, given an impossibility of landing of RUV on the submarine soaming platform.

EFFECT: higher rescue efficiency.

5 cl, 2 dwg