Diving Support Vessels 'Nistar', 'Nipun' launched

• Two indigenously designed and built Diving Support Vessels of the Navy were launched in Visakhapatnam on Thursday
• Named ‘Nistar’ and ‘Nipun’, the ships were launched by Kala Hari Kumar, the wife of the Navy Chief Admiral R Hari Kumar, as per naval traditions
• The ships are capable of conducting search and rescue operations and carrying out helicopter operations at sea
• The vessels are first-of-its-kind ships, indigenously designed and built at Hindustan Shipyard Ltd
• The two have been manufactured with over 80 per cent indigenous content. TNS

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Navy Chief Admiral R Hari Kumar recollected that ‘Nistar’, in its previous avatar as a rescue vessel, played an instrumental role in conducting diving ops on Pakistan Navy Submarine Ghazi, which sank outside Vishakhapatnam harbour during the 1971 war.