Cable Controlled Underwater Research Vehicle (CURV), Pasadena, California
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OFFICE OF NEWS SERVICES THE PENTAGON, WASHINGTON, D. C. 20301 - LIBERTY 5-6700 AUDIO-VISUAL DIVISION RADI0-TV-NEWSFILM BRANCH ROOM 2E765 - EXTENSION 75111 Release Number 62-66 DUPE NEGATIVE TO: Footage: 45: 16mm Color Print FINE GRAIN TO; April 1, 1966 CABLE-CONTROLLED UNDERWATER RESEARCH VEHICLE (CURV) (Official U. S. Navy Footage released by Department of Defense) The Cable-controlled Underwater Research Vehicle (CURV) was procured by the Underwater Ordnance Department, U. S. Naval Ordnance Test Station, Pasadena, California, where it was re-designed and developed by the Missile Branch for the purpose of deep-submergence search and recovery operations. CURV weighs approximately one ton and can operate to a depth of 2,000 feet. It is designed for continuous service operation and is capable of recovering items weighing a maximum of one ton. The CURV searches and recovers faster than any other system currently available A support ship is used to transport the CURY to the recovery area. Normal operation or the vehicle at sea requires a crew of five, including a mechanic, two electronic technicians, a sonar specialist, and a project coordinator After the vehicle has been lowered to the ocean bottom, the sonar specialist directs the vehicle's course The electronic technicians control the vehicle and the claw. Control and monitoring is accomplished from the control console on board the ship. Operation of the vehicle has been geared to provide an efficient and highly reliable search and recovery system. The entire system is routinely checked out well in advance of a scheduled event. After the general location of the target is established by standard range methods and the topside checkout has been accomplished, the CURV is lowered over the side of the anchored support ship and submerged, then it is directed to the required position for recovery on the ocean botton. This film shows the CURV in operation while picking up a torpedo tube from the ocean bottom off the coast of California. Sequences show: (a) CURV lowered from support ship into water (b) Underwater views showing CURV recovering torpedo tube 01/23/6902 NOTE TO EDITORS: 45' 16RM color print released to Telenews for servicing TV and theatrical pool members. Color print to be forwarded to Army Pictorial Center, 35-11 35th Avenue, Long Island City 1, New York, within 72 hours NOTE TO EDITORS: PLEASE CREDIT DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE IN TITLE OR COMMENTARY The fine grain master positive, released to the company designated above, is for duplication and distribution to interested TV and Newsreel pool members. It is then to be returned within 72 hours to the Film Library, Army Pictorial Center, 35-11 35th Avenue, Long Island City 1, New York. The master positive must not be cut in any manner. A dupe negative is also for release to the company designated above for distribution to pool members so desiring for duplication purposes. Within 24 hours it will be delivered to DeLuxe Laboratories, 850 Tenth Avenue, New York, N. Y., telephone Circle 7-3220 where it will be avail- able to non-pool members and other authorized organizations which make satisfactory financial arrangements with DeLuxe Laboratories. The dupe negative must not be cut in any manner. D23413
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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer