Diving Support Craft (DSC) are a series of 5 small-category

diving support vessel A diving support vessel is a ship that is used as a floating base for professional diving projects. Basic requirements are the ability to keep station accurately and reliably throughout a diving operation, often in close proximity to drilling or ...

s being built for the

Indian Navy The Indian Navy (IN) (ISO 15919, ISO: ) is the Navy, maritime and Amphibious warfare, amphibious branch of the Indian Armed Forces. The President of India is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Navy. The Chief of the Naval Staff (India), Chief ...

Titagarh Rail Systems Titagarh Rail Systems Limited is an Indian rolling stock manufacturer. Established in 1997 as a rolling stock foundry unit, the company's headquarters are situated in Kolkata, West Bengal. Titagarh is publicly traded on both the Bombay Stock E ...

Limited. These are designed and equipped with state-of-the-art apparatus to support diving operations in coastal under water environment. The vessels are designed to meet the mission needs of Command Clearance Diving Teams (CCDTs). A contract worth was signed between Titagarh Rail Systems Limited (TRSL) and the Indian Navy on 12 February 2021. The Indian Navy is expected to receive all five diving support craft in FY2024-25. Diving support vessels are important for both military and commercial diving. They are used for underwater work such as inspecting and maintaining pipelines, well-heads, and mobile platforms. They will be used for providing diving assistance to all ships inside and close to harbour for underwater repair, maintenance and salvage. The ships have been indigenously designed and the systems were tested at

Naval Science and Technological Laboratory The Naval Science and Technological Laboratory (NSTL) is an Indian defence laboratory of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), located in Visakhapatnam. Its main function is the research and development of underwater weapons ...

(NSTL) of

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. They are 30 m long

catamaran A catamaran () (informally, a "cat") is a watercraft with two parallel hull (watercraft), hulls of equal size. The wide distance between a catamaran's hulls imparts stability through resistance to rolling and overturning; no ballast is requi ...

hull ships, with a displacement of around 300 tons.

Ships in the class

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{{reflist Auxiliary ships of the Indian Navy

Ships in the class

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