The mini sub is trapped off the south-easteren coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula The Interfax news agency is reporting that a Russian minisub that was stranded underwater in the Pacific Ocean is trapped by two 60 tonne anchors. The submarine propeller has snagged on the antenna of a sonar underwater coastal defense station, (or perhaps very long low frequency arrays, which can be thousands of yards) 623 ft below the ocean 43 miles off Kamchatka . "The anchor needs to be blown up" in order to be able to raise the AS-28 submarine, the commander of the Russian Pacific Fleet told Interfax. The AS-28 submarine, with seven crew onboard, became entangled on Thursday while at a depth of 190 m. A C-5 Galaxy is loaded with people and equipment from the Deep Submergence Unit, Naval Base Coronado. The C-5 is bringing two Super Scorpio robotic rescue vehicles to Russia to assist in the rescue.Around ten Russian navy ships are attending, to be joined by four Japanese vessels on Monday. The US and UK navies are also flying in specialist rescue equipment, including two U.S. navy owned remotely-operated underwater robots capable of cutting through steel lines up to 1" thick and one U.K. video array ROV . They will arrive on Saturday. The same class of vessel, which measures 13.5 m by 3.8 m, was used during the ill-fated rescue attempt on the Kursk , which was lost with all hands almost exactly five years ago.
The mini sub is trapped off the south-easteren coast of the The news agency is reporting that a Russian minisub that was stranded underwater in the is trapped by two 60 tonne anchors. The submarine propeller has snagged on the antenna of a sonar underwater coastal defense station, (or perhaps very long low frequency arrays, which can be thousands of yards) 623 ft below the ocean 43 miles off . "The anchor needs to be blown up" in order to be able to raise the AS-28 submarine, the commander of the told Interfax. The submarine, with seven crew onboard, became entangled on Thursday while at a depth of 190 m. A C-5 Galaxy is loaded with people and equipment from the Deep Submergence Unit, Naval Base Coronado. The C-5 is bringing two Super Scorpio robotic rescue vehicles to Russia to assist in the rescue.Around ten Russian navy ships are attending, to be joined by four Japanese vessels on Monday. The US and UK navies are also flying in specialist rescue equipment, including two U.S. navy owned remotely-operated underwater robots capable of cutting through steel lines up to 1" thick and one U.K. video array . They will arrive on Saturday. The same class of vessel, which measures 13.5 m by 3.8 m, was used during the ill-fated rescue attempt on the , which was lost with all hands almost exactly five years ago.
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