Saved !

Top News | Reuters.co.za: "Russia (Reuters) - Seven Russians trapped for three days deep in the Pacific with dwindling oxygen were saved with British help on Sunday when rescuers cut their mini-submarine free of tangled cables.

'Today was a very happy event. The intensive work to free our submarine at a depth of 200 metres brought results... Our comrades in the crew opened the hatch themselves,' said Admiral Viktor Fyodorov, commander of Russia's Pacific Fleet.

'They behaved valiantly over these 76 hours under water, we heard no complaints, all we heard was that they were fine... It is worth living for these moments.'

The seven submariners walked steadily off their rescue ship down a gangway to a waiting crowd in the port of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, where many people had feared air supplies would fail before the men could be rescued.

Lieutenant Vyacheslav Milashevsky led the crew down the gangway after standing straight-backed to salute the crowd.

'Yes, of course,' he said, when asked if he had always believed he would be saved. The crew then boarded a minibus to go to hospital for medical checks.

The rescue of the AS-28, itself a rescue vehicle, was made possible by a British Scorpio underwater robot flown out to the scene, which severed the cables tangled around it." More...

With the world's eyes and hearts on the seven Russian submariners, Russian, British, American and Japaneese teamwork succeeds in a dramatic rescue off the coast of North Eastern Russia. Well Done!!

Or hearts also go out to the familes of the Kursk, who must find the events of this weekend bitter sweet. We suspect that Scorpio sales will go up to major naval powers with a submarine fleet.

The Russian Parliment will certainly be pressing Vladimir Putin and applying political pressure about the lack of undersea rescue robotics in their homeland. Hopefull this sucessful rescue brings Russia closer to US and Britian in our fight against Islamic jihadists.