INS Satavahana

About:

• Location: Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.
  
  
• Established in:
  
  
• Mandate: INS Satavahana is the premier Submarine Training establishment of the Indian Navy for imparting all facets of submarine training.
  
  
• School of Advanced Undersea Warfare (SAUW): SAUW was established in 2006 inside the premises of INS Satavahana, to train the crew of submarines of the nuclear submarines.
  
  
• Nomenclature:
  • It is named after the “Satavahana” dynasty that once ruled the eastern coast of peninsular India (184 BC to 300 AD).
    
    
  • During the reign of Satkarni, the third Satavahana King, the Indian sails ventured off the present day’s islands of Malaysia and Indonesia.
    
    
  
  
  
• It is the only integrated training establishment in the Indian Navy, as it carries out training for all branches of officers and sailors of the Submarine Arm.
  
  

Comment:

• Training in damage control and firefighting assumes even greater importance as India inducts nuclear submarines into its ageing submarine fleet.
  
  
• In 2013, submarine INS Sindhurakshak sank in the Mumbai harbour after an explosion on board, killing 18 sailors. In 2014, fire on board INS Sindhuratna killed two officers.