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British rescue vehicle
starts cutting free Russia mini-sub
British apparatus submerged
to save Russian sub crew
MOSCOW, Aug. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- The crew of the Russian
mini-submarine prepared for emergency resurfacing Sunday after a British Scorpio
underwater vehicle was done cutting the entanglements that ensnared the vessel
on the Pacific seabed.
The remote-controlled,
deep-diving Scorpio vehicle completed cutting of the debris at 13:15 local time
(0015 GMT) and the seven sailors onboard the submarine were told to get prepared
for emergency resurfacing, Captain Alexander Kosolapov, spokesman for the
Russian Pacific Fleet, was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying.
The resurfacing is expected to take place shortly and
will only last a few minutes, Kosolapov said.
Meanwhile, two US Super Scorpios and rescuers are
being loaded onto a ship at the port of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky hours after
they were airlifted to the regional capital. The ship is expected to leave
shortly for the site of the accident.
The Russian AS-28 mini-submarine got ensnared
Thursday night byan antenna anchored to a 60-ton heavy weight, which was part of
Russia's underwater coastal monitoring system, on the seabed off the Kamchatka
Peninsula.
At a depth of 190 meters, the submarine was too far
down to allow the crew to evacuate. Enditem | 
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