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Sunday, August 07, 2005

Russian Sub

Today I would like to write a less frivolous post and talk about A bit of current news. Today, or with the time differences yesterday, A Russian Mini Sub holding 7 men was rescued from 610 ft. under the Pacific Ocean. The 7 men had been enduring chilling temperatures for approximitly 76 hours, along with the temperature there was the threat that the Sub would run out of oxygen prior to its rescue.
Apparantly the Sub was trapped since Thursday but the Russian Navy did not call for international help until the next day.
An intresting thing about the perdicament that I do not know is how the Sub got stuck. Earlier I heard it was trapped under a fishing net, then a navy antenna, then a fishing net. They still haven't come to a conclusion on what captured the Sub.
I am so happy the Men on board are safe.

If you know what trapped the Sub for sure please comment

Animationman

4 Comments:

  • "The sub had been stranded 190 metres below the surface since Thursday after getting caught in deep-sea cables."
    CTV via Google News.

    Apparently it got snagged by the antenna in the nets and pulled down (probably by the weight of cables and anchors), then trapped under the big concrete anchors.

    They will have to hold an inquiry to figure it out. BBC has some more info and a diagram plus pics.

    I imagine the TV news covered it a lot.

    By Blogger Leon, at 10:20 AM  

  • I'm so glad they were saved.

    By Blogger Christopher Trottier, at 10:50 AM  

  • Yes Fox News on TV was loaded with it.

    I am also thrilled they were saved.

    By Blogger Amimationman, at 5:05 PM  

  • BTW good post. You are trying different things.

    By Blogger Leon, at 5:03 AM  

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