{"id":1009,"date":"2005-08-09T23:12:10","date_gmt":"2005-08-10T04:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2005-08-09T23:12:57","modified_gmt":"2005-08-10T04:12:57","slug":"sub-rescue-team-tells-of-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1009","title":{"rendered":"Sub Rescue Team Tells of Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Against the odds, against the water and most definitely against the clock, the Brits involved now <a href=\"http:\/\/news.scotsman.com\/uk.cfm?id=1754962005\">talk about their decisive role<\/a> in the this weekend&#8217;s rescue of a trapped and desperate Russian submarine.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Royal Navy-led team, which received a heroes&#8217; welcome at Prestwick Airport, said they had repeatedly struck the mini-submarine with their remotely-operated vehicle (ROV) to reassure the Russians that a rescue was under way.<\/p>\n<p>The submariners, entombed for three days in 600ft of water at the bottom of the Pacific, responded by tapping on its hull, rather than speaking, to conserve oxygen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go give it a gander.  It&#8217;s short &#8212; too short, really, as I look forward to more.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see what the Silent Service bloggers have, shall we?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmapalumni.org\/chapomatic\/\">Chapomatic<\/a> has links to <a href=\"http:\/\/gmapalumni.org\/chapomatic\/?p=1103\">three interview stories<\/a> from the stranded.  Meanwhile, Lubber&#8217;s Line at <a href=\"http:\/\/makeyourdepth.blogspot.com\/\">Ultraquiet No More<\/a> has links to several stories covering the opening of what would seem to be a great big <a href=\"http:\/\/makeyourdepth.blogspot.com\/2005\/08\/and-blame-goes-to.html\">Russian blame-storming session<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Against the odds, against the water and most definitely against the clock, the Brits involved now talk about their decisive role in the this weekend&#8217;s rescue of a trapped and desperate Russian submarine. The Royal Navy-led team, which received a heroes&#8217; welcome at Prestwick Airport, said they had repeatedly struck the mini-submarine with their remotely-operated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}