The President and Igor Spassky, Fellow of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Designer General of the Rubin central naval technical design bureau, discussed the chances of recovering the crew’s bodies from the Kursk nuclear submarine wrecked in the Barents Sea.
As the scientist said, he had proposed a number of technical solutions. The operation would largely depend on Norwegian assistance, he added.
Mr Putin advanced an initiative of unifying submarine escape and survival systems on a pattern established in spacecraft.