{"id":31090,"date":"2023-09-02T10:35:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T05:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31090"},"modified":"2025-04-16T09:03:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T03:33:38","slug":"dsc-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dsc-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Diving Support Craft (DSC) Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Diving Support Craft (DSC) Project:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>DSC A 20\u2019 is built by\u00a0<strong>M\/s Titagarh Rail Systems Ltd (TRSL).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They are 30 m long catamaran hull ships, with a\u00a0<strong>displacement of approx 300 tons<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>All five (05) DSC are anticipated to be delivered to Indian Navy in FY 2024-25.<\/li>\n<li>These crafts are being fitted with state of the art diving equipment and tools for performing diving operations.<\/li>\n<li>These ships are designed to undertake operational\/ training diving operations in harbours and coastal waters.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>These ships are indigenously designed and built under\u00a0<strong>relevant Naval Rules and Regulation of Indian Register of Shipping (IRS).\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The hydrodynamic analysis\/ model testing of the ships during design stage were undertaken at Naval Science and Technological Laboratory (NSTL), Visakhapatnam.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>The significance of a Diving Support Vessel<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A diving support vessel, as the name suggests is a ship that is used\u00a0<strong>for the objective of diving into oceans.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Divers, who dive into the middle of the seas as a part of the professional diving process, need proper diving support.<\/li>\n<li>The concept of a diving support vessel came into existence four to five decades ago.<\/li>\n<li>From that time onwards, these ships have been extremely\u00a0<strong>important to the field of commercial diving and for military purposes<\/strong>, which forms a vital part of professional diving.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the Indian Register of Shipping?<\/h3>\n<p>The Indian Register of Shipping (IRS) is a maritime classification society and ship registry based in India. It is responsible for the classification and certification of ships and offshore structures, as well as providing a range of services related to maritime safety, quality, and environmental protection.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1953848\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>LAUNCH OF \u2018DSC A 20 (YARD 325)\u2019 FIRST SHIP OF 05 x DIVING SUPPORT CRAFT (DSC) PROJECT 31 AUG 23 AT M\/S TITAGARH RAIL SYSTEMS (TRSL), KOLKATA<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diving Support Craft (DSC) Project<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}