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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Providence’s Russian sub to be dismantled from stem to stern

K-77Imagine a 3,500-ton hot dog resting within an equally gigantic bun and you have a picture of how demolition crews working from two barges will slowly pick away at the former K-77 Soviet submarine starting this week, reducing what was once a waterfront museum into manageable portions of scrap metal.

On Tuesday, crews from Rhode Island Metals Recycling are scheduled to move the submarine, which has been tied up at Collier Point Park off Allens Avenue for seven years, down the Providence River about 1,000 yards.

From there they are expected to cut open the top of the sub and remove the copper, brass and other metals before turning their attention on the submarine’s hull.

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