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| British sub cuts debris around AS-28 |
| 2005-08-06 |
| A BRITISH undersea robot began cutting cables early this morning that have been pinning a Russian naval mini-submarine to the ocean floor, a Russian naval official was quoted by Interfax news agency as saying. "It reached the AS-28 submarine at 3:05 a.m. Moscow time and began to cut the main cable pinning the submarine under water," Captain Alexander Kosolapov was quoted by the agency as saying. Kosolapov said earlier that the British "Scorpio" remotely operated undersea vehicle would work to cut the Russian submarine free from parts of a underwater coastal surveillance antenna system in which it has been stuck since Thursday. The unmanned British vehicle was equipped with heavy-duty cutting tools able to cut through steel cable. The Russian mini-submarine was stuck at a depth of around 190 meters (620 feet) off the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia's far east region. Efforts by the Russian navy to attach cables to the mini-submarine and tow it to shallower water have so far failed. |
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