In August 2005, seven Russian sailors were freed with help from a British rescue crew after three days trapped inside an AS-28 mini-submarine 600 feet down in the Pacific with dwindling air supplies. Such mini-sub is said to exist also with tracks to move along the seafloor. Norwegian military experts belived the submarine could be rather similar to the rescue- and seafloor mission submarines operated by the Soviet Northern Fleet. The state-owned RIA news agency quoted a highly placed official in the Pacific Fleet as saying the accident happened in the bow of the submarine. The mini-submarine had no sail and was estimated to be 7 to 8 meters long and had floting pontoons on each side. President Dmitry Medvedev has been informed about the accident, Russian news agencies reported. He did not say where the ships were but the Tributs is normally based at Vladivostok, Russia's main Far Eastern naval port, according to Russian media. "The radiation levels on the ship are normal."Ī Russian destroyer, the Admiral Tributs, was providing assistance and taking some of the injured crew from the submarine to port, Dygalo said. The Poseidon appears to be a torpedo-shaped robotic mini-submarine that can travel at speeds of 185 km/h (100 knots). "The reactor section (of the submarine) is working properly," the spokesman said. Third core heat removal system is a passive heat removal system. There were 208 people on board at the time of Saturday's accident, some of them from a shipbuilding company, he added. The experience of using lead-bismuth coolant in Russian nuclear submarine reactors has been. Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov explained the secrecy surrounding the tragedy by saying the information was a. "More than 20 people were killed on a nuclear submarine in the Pacific Ocean during routine testing as a result of the unsanctioned functioning of the fire extinguishing systems," the navy spokesman, Igor Dygalo, said by telephone.ĭygalo did not give the name of the submarine or specify where it was located. But Russian media reported the ship was a top-secret nuclear-powered mini-submarine. Russia 's navy has suffered a string of fatal accidents, including the loss of the Kursk nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea in August 2000. Radiation levels on board were normal, he said. MOSCOW - At least 20 people have died and 21 been injured in an accident on board a Russian nuclear-powered submarine in the Pacific Ocean, a Russian naval spokesman said on Sunday.
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