AS-28

AS-28 is a miniature submarine of the Russian Navy belonging to the Project 1855 Priz class. It was designed for submarine rescue operations by the Lazurit design bureau in Nizhny Novgorod. It is 13.5 m (44 ft) long, 5.7 m (19 ft) high, and can operate up to a depth of 1000 m.

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On August 5, 2005 AS-28, under the command of Lieutenant Vyacheslav Milashevsky, became entangled with the aerial of a hydrophone array off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, in Berezovaya Bay, 70 km southeast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Kamchatka Oblast. The aerial, anchored by 60-tonne concrete blocks, snared the propeller of the submarine, and the submarine then sank to the seafloor at a depth of 190 m (600 ft). This was too deep for the ship's complement of seven to leave the submarine and swim to the surface. The British rescuers and Russian officials stated that fishing nets also had entangled the vessel.

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