TSAMTO, October 21. On the instructions of the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, specialists of the Research Institute of Rescue and Underwater Technologies of the VUNC of the Navy took part in tests of a modernized steel ship-lifting pontoon with a lifting capacity of 200 tons of Project 528 (SSP-200), held in Sevastopol.
The pontoon was built by the JSC "CAMPO" enterprise near Moscow by order of the Main Command of the Navy.
The SSP-200 pontoon is a specialized technical means equipped with flooding and purging systems, as well as fastening devices to a sunken or transported object. The pontoon is designed to lift sunken ships, keep them afloat and ensure stability when lifting, as well as to reduce precipitation when navigating in shallow water.
The technical solutions patented by the staff of the Research Institute of Rescue and Underwater Technologies of the VUNC Navy "Naval Academy" were the basis for the requirements for the modernization of pontoons and implemented by the shipbuilding production of JSC "CAMPO" (Orekhovo-Zuyevo, Moscow region) in the head pontoon, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports.