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To: maceng2 who wrote (810)	8/7/2005 1:50:48 AM
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Some Russian submariners in trouble actually get to live. Putin must be pleased. As submariners must be too.. edition.cnn.com Trapped sub surfaces, crew safe Sunday, August 7, 2005 Posted: 0433 GMT (1233 HKT) U.S. military personnel unload rescue equipment Saturday in Petropavlorsk-Kamchatsky, Russia. Image: WATCH Browse/Search Unmanned vessels will try to free a Russian sub (1:32) RELATED Gallery: Russian submarine accident Map: Location of Russian submarine YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS Russia United States Navy or Create Your Own Manage Alerts \| What Is This? MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- A Russian mini-submarine that had been trapped at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean since Thursday surfaced Sunday, and all seven of the crew members on board are alive and in satisfactory condition, officials said. Authorities had been concerned about the amount of oxygen available to the crew after the mini-submarine became entangled and trapped on the ocean floor, nearly 190 meters (625 feet) below the surface in Berezovaya Bay -- 70 kilometers (43 miles) south of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on Russia's far eastern coast. "I would like to thank our British colleagues for their aid in saving the crew," said Vladimir Pepelyayev, deputy head of the Russian navy's headquarters, as reported by the Russian news agency Interfax. "The crew's condition is satisfactory." Following a request for assistance from Russia, U.S. and British rescuers had responded to the scene. A British crew lowered into the water an unmanned rescue vehicle called a Scorpio 45, which cut the items pinning the sub underwater. The U.S. also had sent two unmanned rescue vehicles, called Super Scorpios, but they did not leave the port of Petropavlovsk. A U.S. crew, along with equipment, was taken to the site by a Russian ship. The sub was raised about 4:20 p.m. (3:20 a.m. GMT), said U.S. Pacific Fleet spokesman John Yoshishige. It apparently had been entangled in a fishing net, he said. "It's a great effort by all involved, and we're very pleased about that," U.S. Pacific Fleet Cmdr. Mark McDonald told CNN. Yoshishige said a U.S. Navy doctor was evaluating the crew's condition, but confirmed all seven members were alive. Pepelyayev told Interfax the crew opened the hatch of the mini-sub on their own. The rescue effort earlier was briefly delayed when the Scorpio 45 experienced functioning problems and briefly was brought to the surface, according to the Russian news agency Interfax. After the sub became stuck, Russia swiftly asked for international assistance, conscious of avoiding the tragedy five years ago when their request to help save the crew of the nuclear submarine Kursk was slower. Those 118 crew members died when the submarine sank in the Barents Sea. Russian President Vladimir Putin met Saturday with officials and had dispatched Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov to Kamchatka.