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Ou será que nesse tempo, a Rússia teria esses meios, e que devido aos cortes nas suas FA's esses meios desapareceram?

Rui Elias Maltez escreveu:Um final feliz, como referiu o Raúl.

Mas o mais incrível é que aparentemente a Rússia não tem meios para acudir a este tipo de incidentes.

Foi necessário esperar por ajuda norte-americana e britânica.

E destaque para a boa vontade japonesa apesar dos conflitos entre os 2 países por causa das ilhas Kurillas.

Imagine-se que se estava na "guerra fria".

Teriam os marinheiros morrido?

Ou será que nesse tempo, a Rússia teria esses meios, e que devido aos cortes nas suas FA's esses meios desapareceram?

Pobre Rússia...

International Effort Saves Crew of Disabled Russian Submarine
08 August 2005

Rescue highlights cooperation of Russia, Britain, Japan, United States

By Tim Receveur
Washington File Staff Writer

In-Depth Coverage Washington -- Russia expressed "profound thanks" to Great Britain, the United States and Japan for responding to a call for help in rescuing seven Russian sailors who were trapped in a disabled submarine for three days on the Pacific Ocean floor.

The rescue mission, involving Russian ships, British submersibles and sailors, and American divers and a doctor, saved the crew aboard the Priz AS-28 mini-sub in an unprecedented example of military cooperation on August 7.

"Thanks to the jointly coordinated activities of Russian, British and American servicemen, this unique operation to save the crew was achieved," read a statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry.

“Russia would like to convey its profound gratitude to Britain, the U.S. and Japan, who instantly responded to Russia's plea for help in saving the crew,” the statement said.

"It's a great effort by all involved, and we're very pleased about that," said U.S. Pacific Fleet Commander Mark McDonald.

The U.S. Navy said the red-and-white mini-sub became tangled in fishing net during a military exercise on August 4 in Beryozovaya Bay, 45 miles from the port of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

The British remote-controlled Super Scorpio, sent in response to Russia’s urgent call for help, arrived August 6 and spent six hours the next day cutting away the fishing net cables that had snarled the Russian vessel and its propeller.

The United States also sent remote-controlled underwater vehicles for the rescue, but the vessels arrived later and were not used; however, three American divers and a doctor accompanied the British crew on its mission.

Following the rescue, a doctor from the U.S. Navy evaluated the sub crew's condition and treated the men, who had faced temperatures as low as 6 degrees Celsius (43 degrees Fahrenheit).

Following an international appeal for help from Russia on August 5, the United States, Britain and Japan immediately dispatched teams, although according to press reports, the Japanese team did not arrive in time to participate.

The commander of Russia's Pacific Fleet, Admiral Viktor Fyodorov, said the operation helped bring all of the sailors closer together -- “in this case Russian, U.S., British and Japanese sailors."

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, who went to Beryozovaya Bay to supervise the operation, highly praised the international rescue effort.

“We have seen in deeds, not in words, what the brotherhood of the sea means,” he said.

Russia to buy deep-diving Scorpio rescue vehicles

MOSCOW, Aug. 9 (Xinhuanet) -- Russia has decided to buy two deep-diving Scorpio rescue vehicles to boost its rescue capabilities following a submarine accident that trapped seven crewmembers for three days after the mini-submarine got entangled with fishing nets and an antenna on the Pacific seabed.

Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov decided to buy two remote-controlled, deep-diving Scorpio underwater vehicles for the Russian navy, Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral Viktor Fyodorov toldthe Itar-Tass news agency Tuesday.

The AS-28 mini-submarine, itself meant for rescue operations, got ensnarled Thursday night by fishing nets and an antenna of Russia's coastal monitoring system on the seabed off the KamchatkaPeninsula and was lifted to surface Sunday with all the crew members alive.

The crew was salvaged at the end of an around-the-clock rescue operation that was assisted by a British Scorpio underwater vehicle, which was submerged to cut the entanglements.

Russia was quick to ask for international help after the accident occurred. Britain and the United States airlifted Scorpiosubmersibles to join the rescue work.

The lobster-shaped Scorpios are equipped with black and white video cameras, two robotic arms that can each lift about 250 pounds and a cable cutter that can slice through 2.54 cm-thick steel cables.

The British Scorpio played a key role in the operation to free the submarine, Fyodorov said.

The decision to buy Scorpios came a day after Fyodorov underlined the need to have efficient rescue equipment in the wakeof the submarine accident.

The Russian navy "has advanced submarines but does not have efficient rescue vehicles," he said Monday.

"If we had had a rescue vehicle of this kind, we could have rescued the mini-submarine within a day," Fyodorov said.

Russia has decided to buy two deep-diving Scorpio rescue vehicles to boost its rescue capabilities following a submarine accident that trapped seven crewmembers for three days after the mini-submarine got entangled with fishing nets and an antenna on the Pacific seabed.

Rui Elias Maltez escreveu:

Russia has decided to buy two deep-diving Scorpio rescue vehicles to boost its rescue capabilities following a submarine accident that trapped seven crewmembers for three days after the mini-submarine got entangled with fishing nets and an antenna on the Pacific seabed.

"Depois de casa roubada, tancas à porta".

A minha admiração é ver um país como a Rússia sem esse equipamentos antes.

"Mas mais vale tarde que nunca".

Ou "quem espera semopre alcança".

Lí um artigo que falava que o motivo desta falta de equipamentos de resgate da Marinha Russa, deveu-se a uma decisão do Almirantado que ao herdar a frota soviética, decidiu por manter o maior número de embarcações combatentes possíveis em ação e sacrificou-se as embarcações de apoio e resgate.