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Efforts on to save Russian sailors
A Russian ship has snagged a mini-submarine trapped far under the Pacific Ocean and was trying to tow it to shallower waters where divers could free the seven people trapped in it for two days, the commander of the Russian Pacific fleet said. The statement by Admiral Viktor Fyodorov to the NTV television channel followed a day of desperate rescue efforts and widely varying estimates of how much oxygen remained on the tiny vessel.A British military plane carrying a sophisticated unmanned underwater rescue vehicle took off for the disaster scene in Russia's Far East late on Friday and the US Navy was scrambling to send another. Both could reach the site off the Kamchatka Peninsula within time - if earlier estimates that there was enough oxygen to keep the seven alive for 24 hours held true. However, Fyodorov said early on Saturday that there was oxygen for "at least 18 hours," a distinctly less optimistic statement than his earlier assertion that the air would last into Monday.
Posted by: Fred 2005-08-06 |
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