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The Royal Navy's dramatic race to save the crew of a trapped
Russian submarine. 5 August 2005. On a secret mission to an
underwater military installation 30 miles off the coast of
Kamchatka, Russian Navy submersible AS-28 ran into a web of cables
and stuck fast. With 600 feet of freezing water above them, there
was no escape for the seven crew. Trapped in a titanium tomb, all
they could do was wait as their air supply slowly dwindled. For
more than 24 hours the Russian Navy tried to reach them. Finally -
still haunted by the loss of the nuclear submarine Kursk five years
before - they requested international assistance. On the other side
of the world Commander Ian Riches, leader of the Royal Navy's
Submarine Rescue Service, got the call: there was a sub down. With
the expertise and specialist equipment available to him Riches knew
his team had a chance to save the men, but Kamchatka was at the
very limit of their range and time was running out. As the Royal
Navy prepared to deploy to Russia's Pacific coast aboard a giant
Royal Air Force C-17 airlifter, rescue teams from the United States
and Japan also scrambled to reach the area. On board AS-28 the
Russian crew shut down all non-essential systems, climbed into
thick thermal suits to keep the bone-chilling damp at bay and
waited, desperate to eke out the stale, thin air inside the
pressure hull of their craft. But as the first of them began to
drift in and out of consciousness, they knew the end was close.
They started writing their farewells. 72 HOURS tells the
extraordinary, edge-of-the-seat and real-life story of one of the
most dramatic rescue missions of recent years.
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have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingA AcentsAcentsa A-Acentsa Acentss Legacy Reprint Series.
Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks,
notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this
work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of
our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's
literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of
thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of intere
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingA AcentsAcentsa A-Acentsa Acentss Legacy Reprint Series.
Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks,
notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this
work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of
our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's
literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of
thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of intere
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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