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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Huge nuclear sub rescues crew of tiny boat off Russia's NW coast

Oscar-class nuclear-propelled cruise-missile submarine K-119 VoronezhWhen people on board a small motorboat trapped by a storm in the northern White Sea radioed SOS, they didn't expect that help would come in the form of a 154m-long nuclear submarine.

On Sunday, the 11-meter boat Barents-1100 was trying to avoid a storm in the White Sea at the north-west coast of Russia, when crew members realized that they were running too low on fuel. So they sent a distress signal to their home port of Arkhangelsk.

Rescue services dispatched two ships and a Mi-8 transport helicopter to the rescue. But the first one to respond to the call was the Oscar-class nuclear-propelled cruise-missile submarine K-119 Voronezh of the Russian Northern Fleet, which was in the area conducting training, the Defense Ministry reported.

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