Kursk arrives in Russian port

A giant barge hauling the battered Kursk submarine pulled into waters of a Russian shipyard today, in the final stage of an ambitious salvage effort made riskier by the ship’s two nuclear reactors and missile arsenal.

The Giant-4 barge started attaching itself to floating anchors about 500 yards from shore at Roslyakovo near Murmansk, said Russian Navy spokesman Vladimir Navrotsky.