A British remote-controlled vehicle cut loose a Russian mini-submarine that had been snarled on undersea cables for three days deep in the Pacific, and it surfaced today with its crew safe.

Rescue crews managed to loop cables under the structure trapping a mini-submarine deep in the Pacific Ocean today and will try to lift the vessel closer to the surface, Russian navy spokesman Captain Igor Dygalo said.

An international effort is underway to rescue seven people trapped aboard a Russian mini-submarine off the Pacific coast.

Crews are racing to save a Russian mini-submarine trapped in the remote Pacific with seven sailors on board and oxygen supplies dwindling, navy officials said today.

A Russian seaman has died in an accident on board a nuclear submarine at a Pacific base.

A Russian seaman died in an accident on board a nuclear submarine at a Pacific base, a navy spokesman said today.

Divers working on the wreck of the Kursk have begun piercing the last of 26 holes in the vessel's hull.

The operation to raise the sunken nuclear submarine Kursk is approaching the challenging phase of cutting the badly damaged bow section from the rest of the ship.

Naval engineers using a remote-controlled mini-sub conducted exploratory work today at the site where the Kursk nuclear submarine sank, laying the groundwork for the complex, two-month operation to raise the shattered ship.

The Russian Navy has today denied a report that one of its nuclear submarines had suffered an accident during recent exercises in the Barents Sea and couldn’t reach port under its own power.

Russian officials today denied a Norwegian television report that the Kursk submarine was carrying nuclear weapons when it exploded and sank last summer.

The Russian navy has dismissed claims the Kursk was sunk by a missile from another Russian vessel.