DSRV-1 Mystic


DSRV-1 Mystic is a deep-submergence rescue vehicle that is rated to dive up to 5,000 feet. She was built by Lockheed for the US Navy at a construction cost of $41 million and launched 24 January 1970. She was declared fully operational in 1977 and named Mystic.
cargo aircraft
The submarine was intended to be air transportable; she was long and in diameter, and she weighed 37 tons. The sub was capable of descending to below the surface and could carry 24 passengers at a time, in addition to her crew. She was stationed at Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego and was never required to conduct an actual rescue operation. Mystic was replaced by the SRDRS on September 30, 2008 and began deactivation on October 1, 2008. In October 2014, the submarine was donated to the Naval Undersea Museum.

In fiction

In fiction, she was used in the 1978 film Gray Lady Down as a rescue vehicle following a submarine accident, as well as Tom Clancy's novel The Hunt for Red October and film based on it to ferry men from to Red October. The vehicle also played a role in the 2018 film Hunter Killer.