Russian mini sub trapped in the east coast

[red oct 2]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/08/05/russia.sea/index.html

i have a pretty good feeling they'll be rescued before they run out of air. plan is the scorpio subs will cut the fishing net and the mini subs should be able to surface. the cnn link said the crew has enough air till monday, but i heard somewhere else they only had 18 hours left. anybody know which is true?

[Bordoy 0]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/08/05/russia.sea/index.html

i have a pretty good feeling they'll be rescued before they run out of air. plan is the scorpio subs will cut the fishing net and the mini subs should be able to surface. the cnn link said the crew has enough air till monday, but i heard somewhere else they only had 18 hours left. anybody know which is true?

I heard it was between 1-5days. Depends how much oxygen they use up if they breathe fast etc.

[cozza 24]

Hope they make it out alive.

And why does Russia allways lose subs

[EiZei 0]

Hope they make it out alive.

And why does Russia allways lose subs

Too many subs and too little money dont mix well.

[cozza 24]

make sense

[shinRaiden 0]

And the reports are in that the British remote-controlled RSV flown in cut the cables and they're free now.

[Daddl 10]

Good the sailors would survive! With the rescue robots stuck at the aiport for hours I didn't think they would make it in time!

Anyways, bbc online had an interesting article about the rusting ex-soviet fleet.

Quote[/b] ]Russian TV reported last year that warships and submarines of the northern fleet were being routinely robbed of vital components, including telecommunication circuit boards, air regeneration filters and even torpedoes.

Arf!

[Stealth3 0]

It wasn't a fishing net, it was a cable from a tellecommunication station.

[pogingwapo 0]

That commo antenna may be a top secret enemy sub detector.

Quote[/b] ]Russian Admiral Strongly Condemns Request for NATO Assistance in Submarine Rescue

Created: 07.08.2005 02:44 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 02:45 MSK

SOURCE: Mosnews

Admiral Eduard Baltin, former commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet said on Saturday that it was a mistake to ask NATO countries for help in rescuing the crew of the Russian mini-submarine stranded on the Pacific floor since Thursday because “this region is stuffed with [Russian military] secretsâ€, Interfax reports.

The region hosts “the main base for the strategic nuclear submarines of the Pacific Fleet, which NATO itself has nicknamed a wasps’ nest. A secret cable runs through the area and a foreign submarine detection system is located here too,†Hero of the Soviet Union Adm. Eduard Baltin told Interfax.

According to Baltin, Russian Navy should have been able to rescue the AS-28 mini-sub without difficulty, using manipulators at its disposal, and blowing up the cable, in which the mini-sub got caught. The admiral also expressed surprise that the Pacific Fleet command had said openly that the sub had got caught on an underwater antenna instead of “an underwater object.†“This antenna is one of the main components of an active system for the long-range detection of submarines,†he said.