A FIRM is creating a specialist craft to save stricken submarine crew.
Perry Slingsby Systems, of Kirkbymoorside, in North Yorkshire, has been awarded a multi-million pound contract to build the Nato submarine rescue submersible.
The craft will be able to dive to 600 metres and rescue 15 people at a time.
David Gillies, Perry Slingsby sales and marketing manager, said: "It's a great honour for Yorkshire."
The firm has hired ten extra staff.
The need for improved submarine rescue equipment was highlighted four years ago when 118 crew members died on the Russian Kursk submarine after an explosion.
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