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To: KLP who wrote (130880)8/9/2005 12:53:29 PM
From: steve harris  Respond to of 793843
 
The last I read it was tangled in fishnets. One British officer said it may have looked like steel and it was pretty tough, but it was fishnets.

The fish nets were tangled upon the listening array though...
:)

usatoday.com

But Riches, the British commander, said the vessel had become tangled in fishing nets, as had been originally reported.

"The submarine was caught very firm into the fishing nets and had driven into them so that they were very tight and they actually looked and behaved like steel wires, so it was very, very difficult to cut through with cutting implements," Riches told The Associated Press.