Russian Sailors evacuate the AS-28 PRIZ mini-submarine after surfacing in the Bering Sea with less than six hours of oxygen left. The Sailors survived three days in waters over 600 feet deep caught in fishing nets and cables of a Russian secret surveillance system. The US Navy (USN) and British Navy participated in the rescue of seven Russian Sailors trapped on the ocean floor in a mini-submarine off the Kamchatka Peninsula bringing Super Scorpio remotely operated vehicles to free the mini-sub
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Country: Bering Sea
Scene Camera Operator: Etcm Charles T. Grandin, Usn
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
07/08/2005
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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