From the web-site of the firm that built/owns/operates the rescue
mini-sub on its way to work on the Kursk:
The SRMS has been developed by RUMIC Ltd on behalf of the United Kingdom
Ministry of Defence and is used by the
Submarine Escape and Rescue Project to help co-ordinate rescue assets in
the event of a submarine incident.
The SRMS is a dedicate[d] application written to take advantage of
'MapInfo Professional' one of the world's leading graphical
mapping systems.
The SRMS software has been written to display submarine rescue assets
such as ships, ROVs and rescue submersibles, but it
is very flexible and can easily be modified to present any kind of data,
static or dynamic.
There are several features built into the system which allow the user to
quickly find the nearest asset type to an incident and
display its vital information such as global position, contact name,
telephone number and current operational status - all vital
information required in the mobilisation of rescue assets.
