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at this moment submariners await rescue, time is of the essence......





Equipment rushed to Russia to save sailors trapped in sub

Air Force jet carrying 'Super Scorpio' remote-controlled vehicles en route to disaster scene; U.K. also sending help as oxygen supply in craft dwindles

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The U.S. is sending two Super Scorpios, like this one, to help the sub.

A U.S. military cargo plane carrying two robotic unmanned submersibles is en route to help a Russian mini-sub stranded deep underwater off Russia's Pacific coast Friday. Seven sailors are aboard the sub and it is unclear how much oxygen remains. A Russian vessel has dragged an object closer to the coast, according to the Interfax news agency.

you can ascend from 300 feet and live? are you certain? i really want to know. you get nitrogen narcosis at 150'. i imagine decompression stops would be absolutely necessary to prevent being 'bent'and dead at the surface. do they have SCUBA gear on board their research subs so they can make the stops?

don't know if anyone here remembers the Thresher...top secret. went down. my Dad designed the reactor and he and the Pres and Sec. of defense were only ones who knew where it was for many years.

.....USN Ships--USS Thresher (SSN-593) this is all i could find right now. this was top secret classified for many years.

JAB...do you know naval research laboratories in DC? next to Bolling AFB? my Dad was the director. i grew up in forest heights.

Scrat wrote: LC. I should rephrase that, they would have a very good chance of surviving the ascent with the medical facilities on the ships. Your a diver, you tell me. Maybe I am just hoping too much. I read about it in my How Things Work collection but unless my memory fails me they may survive a fast ascent if they are put in the decompression chambers immediately.i appreciate what you say, but i don't think there is any way to survive a 300 foot ascent without decomp stops...they would be dead at the surface. i can only hope for a rescue..it's 0330 here so i don't know yet. what a lousy way to die. submariners are brave people.

any word this morning? i am half asleep...

Scrat wrote: I'm looking now.let me know...this is too reminiscent. what an awful way to die...do you know the hunley, circa civil war?

thanks Scrat...me too.but drinking stoli.... i hope they are rescued.

drinking stoli....

I have been watching FOX on this all morning. It seem the time left for them with OXEGYON has been extended to with luck to Monday about 10pm our time. So it is looking better all the time. They have with them deep water decompression chamber, it just has to get there. The Brits are with in 2 hours of being on the scene. I have been glued to the TV regarding this rescue..

now Carla...(nurse ratchet) don't nag me! ..............this morning CNN.... Report: Russian rescuers lifting disabled sub |

You know me just lookin out for you sweetie..!!

I just heard that the Brits are on the scene just arrived.. So hopefully this nightmare will be over soon for these 7 sailors..

Updated: 10:52 p.m. ET Aug. 6, 2005

British robot frees trapped Russian mini-sub

Rescuers prepare for vessel with seven sailors aboard to surface

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, Russia - A British remote-controlled vehicle on Sunday cut away the cables that had snarled a Russian mini-submarine and its seven-man crew deep under the Pacific Ocean, and rescuers were preparing for the sub to surface, a naval spokesman said.

Capt. Igor Dygalo told The Associated Press that the Super Scorpio had freed the mini-sub from the military antenna that had tangled it some 625 feet below the surface.

With oxygen supplies dwindling after nearly three days underwater off the Kamchatka Peninsula, rescuers were racing to try and bring the 44-foot-long AS-28 to the surface in Beryozovaya Bay, about 10 miles off Kamchatka’s east coast.

But a mechanical problem with the Super Scorpio forced workers to bring the rescue vehicle to the surface, delaying a process complicated by the discovery of a fishing net caught on the mini-sub, Interfax quoted another naval spokesman as saying.

“After the last cable holding down the mini-sub was cut off, rescuers found a piece of fishing net on the nose of the submersible,” Capt. Alexander Kosolapov was quoted as saying. “They were unable to take it off because the Scorpio had to be raised to the surface due to functioning problems.”

IT HAS SURFACED...

wonderful news!

A Russian submarine that had been trapped nearly 625 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean was raised Sunday, and all seven crew members are alive, a spokesman for the U.S. Pacific Fleet confirmed. The sub was raised about 4:20 p.m. (11:20 p.m. ET Saturday). A U.S. Navy doctor on board a Russian ship was evaluating the conditions of the Russian crew, John Yoshishige said.

FULL STORY!

I love it when there's a happy ending!:D