Posted on 08/07/2005 5:16:14 AM PDT by Lessismore
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 7 (RIA Novosti, Arkady Orlov) - Officials at the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet headquarters in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, have highlighted the role of American divers in an international effort to bring to the surface the seven-man crew of a Russian mini-submarine trapped for three days beneath the Pacific Ocean, off the Kamchatka peninsula.
The officials said in a press release Sunday that three of the U.S. Navy divers involved in the rescue effort provided crucial help for the British underwater robot Scorpio in slicing through fishing nets and debris entangling the submarine.
They also said that on board the Russian ship from where the Scorpio crew were conducting the rescue operation, a U.S. naval medic was on standby to treat the submariners, who had faced a dwindling oxygen supply and temperatures as low as 6C (43F).
The medic and the divers arrived in Kamchatka Saturday, as part of a 32-member U.S. Navy rescue team. They had been flown in by a C-5 jet from the Naval Air Station North Island, in San Diego Bay, California, home to the Deep Submergence Unit for submarine rescue.
God Bless America and England for their initiatives in technology and training.
It doesn't say how far down the sub was, but I had heard that divers couldn't go that far down without a sub. How could divers help?
depth was 200 meters, from what I read earlier
Who invented and built the Super Scorpio craft that provided the needed strong arm for success? Is an American craft or a British designed craft?
(Romans 10:17)
Last week I got the crap kicked out of me on a thread about the new soviet electric boats. I think saying the only danger they posed was taking out one of our boats on the way to the bottom got me whacked about like a red headed step child.
Apparently this was an old one, but the new ones will rock our world.
Sure.
The high-tech "hard" diving suits handle 600 ft. without a problem (this is stuff that the oil companies use to maintain deep-water drilling rigs). I would guess that similar Navy suits can handle more, and the specs are probably "classified".
I looked for DFU songs to celebrate, but I didn't find any.
Safe in the USSR (To the Tune of "Back in the USSR")
Oh, this story was all over the TV
As you went to bed last night
Seven sailors stuck beneath the sea
Man, it was a dreadful sight
We’re back in the USSR
And we know how lucky we are, boy
Safe in the USSR, yeah
Down there so long I turned blue in the face
I really wished to be back home
While down there in that cramped place
They talked to us by phone
On land in the USSR
And we know how lucky we are, boy
Thanks to the US
Thanks to the UK
Safe in the USSR
Well this sorry state really knocks me out
The West saved our behind
Moscow’s policy makes me want to shout
Dying was on my my my my my my my my my mind
Oh, come on
Hu Hey Hu, hey, ah, yeah
yeah, yeah, yeah
We’re back in the USSR
And we know how lucky we are, boys
Safe in the USSR
Well this sorry state really knocks me out
The West saved our behind
Moscow’s policy makes me want to shout
Dying was on my my my my my my my my my mind
Oh, to our rescue those Allies streaked
sailin’ way down south
Just before we bought the farm
Sent their Scorpio's to bring us out
Came and kept my comrades from harm
We’re back in the USSR
Hey, we do know how lucky we are, boy
Safe in the USSR
Fox News said that we were shipping in special equipment for divers in addition to the Scorpios.
"U.S. divers, presumably with better equipment, rushed to the scene to help if necessary. In Belle Chasse, La., a marine services company sent sophisticated deep sea diving suits and a diving crew on board a military plane."
I would like to complement the Russians for so quickly asking help for these young sailors. It took alot of personal courage for Putin to send out for help like that. No doubt he will also benefit politically, but I see this as a big step in the superpowers cooperation.
So where was china?
The Coalition of the Willing to the rescue again!
There are many limits to deep sea diving. Most of them are dependent on the diving equipment being used.
The first one you encounter is the limit of oxygen rebreathers. Then there is the limit for compressed air.
After those there are several for hard hat equipment (See “Men of Honor”).
If you have to go deeper you are into to JEM-suits (effectively one man submarines) and saturation diving.
From this article and the timeline involved I suspect that the Navy divers were in GEM-suits or something more advanced. The last time I looked, it takes time and a whole lot of equipment to do saturation diving safely.
now wake up--you see the cooperation between western powers for good?,now get your act together and unite against the enemy of civilization-islam
Sorry, I'm a product of the public school system, back in the days when we had to practice the "duck and cover" thing under our desks.
Alrighty, then, "Back in the ex-USSR"
There was a mention of 'a problem' with the British mini-sub. I didn't hear any specifics. We apparently use the same equipment, so our divers may have helped solve the problem so the Super-Scorpio could complete its job. But this is all speculation on my part...
The Putim could not survive politically if he let another submarine crew die because he was too proud to ask for help.
?.....it was their 'antenna'....?
/sarcasm....America is a Chinese/British 'oil-tea'tax' colony?
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