Russian Divers Headed for Norway and Sunken KurskA team of Russian divers left for Norway on Sunday for training with Norwegian divers in preparation for retrieving bodies from the sunken Kursk nuclear submarine.The 15 divers flew from St. Petersburg's Pulkovo airport to the port of Bergen from where a special expedition will sail to the sunken submarine. Russia's Rubin military design bureau and the Norwegian subsidiary of the US-based Halliburton oil services company are leading the project. The attempt to recover the remains is scheduled to begin around Oct. 18, and will take about 20-25 days, the ITAR-Tass news agency said, quoting Rubin officials. The entire 118-man crew of the Kursk, one of Russia"s newest nuclear submarines, was killed when the ship plunged to the bottom of the Barents Sea during military exercises Aug. 12. Russian officials have still not concluded what caused the disaster. |
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