Built by Goa Shipyard Limited and commissioned into the Naval service at Visakhapatnam under the command of Captain S.S. Karnik in 2001, Darshak is the Indian Navy's eighth hydrographic survey ship to have been indigenously designed and constructed.

These are designed to meet the stringent international/ISO 9002 digital survey accuracy standards required for the production of electronic navigation charts and publications.

Navy divers carried out further dives at the site and identified a two-metre long cannon which, although attached to the wreck, was deeply embedded in the seabed.

This survey work was of particular importance for the country's government due to upcoming oil pipeline being laid at the port from Uganda.

Also survey data was collected for aquaculture site off Anse La Raie and deep sea transacts for scientific research at request of Mauritius Oceanography Institute.

The survey is also expected to help in Deep Ocean Water Application Projects done on request of Continental Shelf Department of Prime Minister's Office.

During the trip Sri Lanka Navy personnel joined their counterparts on the ship to undertake advanced hydrographic practices.