Morro Bay Maritime Museum’s deep sea rescue vessel restoration

By Tom Wilmer

Published April 13, 2023 at 10:23 PM PDT

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Morro Bay Maritime U.S. Navy DSRV restoration

Tom Wilmer visits with Scott Mather, President of the Morro Bay Maritime Museum.

Mather talks about the U.S. Navy DSRV (Deep Sea Recovery Vessel) on long-term loan to the museum from the U.S. Navy. The DSRV is presently cocooned in shrink-wrap during the repainting process.

Sister vessel to Morro Bay's rescue vessel DSRV-1 Mystic Sasebo, Japan (Apr. 25, 2002) -- The U.S. Navy Los Angeles attack submarine USS La Jolla (SSN 701) with the deep submergence rescue vehicle Mystic (DSRV-1) attached, is escorted by the Japanese Coast Guard as it pulls out of Sasebo harbor to participate in the submarine rescue Exercise Pacific Reach 2002. La Jolla and Mystic will operate with surface ships and submarines from the U.S., Japan, Australia, the Republic of Korea and the Republic of Singapore during Exercise Pacific Reach. Mystic was specifically designed to fill the need for an improved means of rescuing the crew of a submarine immobilized on the ocean floor. It can operate independently of surface conditions or under ice for rapid response to an accident anywhere in the world. U.S. Navy photo by Journalist 3rd Class Wes Eplen. (RELEASED)

Mather also talks about the other historic vessels on display including a 30-foot Coast Guard rollover rescue vessel and the circa-1930s tugboat Alma that rescued crew members of an oil tanker torpedoed near Cambria just weeks after Pearl Harbor in December 1941.

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