PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, Russia (6 Aug 2005) -- A British undersea robot resumed work Sunday to extract a Russian mini-submarine from debris on the ocean floor after resurfacing briefly to repair a fault, Interfax news agency reported, quoting a Russian naval spokesman. "It has gone back underwater to free the submarine from the fishing net," the agency quoted Captain Alexander Kosolapov, spokesman for the Russian Pacific Fleet, as saying. He said earlier that the British "Scorpio" remotely operated submersible had cut cables that were pinning the Russian submarine to the seabed but that the last remnants of a fishing net still entangled on the vessel needed to be removed before it could resurface. | | Scorpio That resurfacing was expected to take place "soon," Russian naval officials said. |
