Sub Recovery Effort to Resume as Storm Passes
From Times Staff Reports
Russian officials said a violent storm that had threatened to disrupt preparations to raise the Kursk nuclear submarine had blown over the Barents Sea site and that work would restart soon.
Bad weather forced all but one of the vessels involved in the operation to pull up anchor Saturday and start dodging the waves. Several ships had to leave the area.
The salvagers need three or four days of calm seas to strap the Kursk to 26 mammoth hydraulic jacks installed on a huge barge for the lifting operation to go ahead.
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