HMS Belos (ex–Energy Supporter) is a submarine rescue ship in the Swedish Navy's 1st Submarine flotilla. She carries Sjöugglan, Argus, Mantis and URF. She is also capable of carrying the British SRV1.
Originally built as a diving platform to serve offshore oil platforms, she was bought and converted to a submarine rescue ship. HMS Belos is the largest ship (by displacement) in the Swedish Navy.
Former oilfield supply, firefighting, and diver maintenance support vessel purchased March 1992 from Italian company S.A.N.A. and refitted at Rio de Janeiro before proceeding to Sweden and commissioning October 1992. Belos has medical and berthing facilities for 35 rescued submariners.
A Mantis 1-man tethered submersible, handled by an A-frame crane to starboard, is used to reconnoiter bottomed submarines and has a 760-m max. depth; the Mantis can also be used as a remotely operated vehicle. The ship also carries a 3-man diving bell capable of operating in depths up to 1,500 m and a divers’ “wet bell” usable to 60-m depths and Sea Owl remotely operated submersibles. There are a 6-man and an 8-man decompression chambers for divers and a 35-man hyperbaric chamber for rescued submariners.
note also helicopter platform at the bow.
She is seen here in Leith (Note the SRV1 on the stern):
A couple of the SRV1 for more info on her click HERE
