Russian sailors found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea submarine since the Great Patriotic War. As the press-service of the Baltic Fleet, The submarine's hull was discovered by the crew of the mine defense ship during a training search for mines (minesweeper) “Alexander Obukhov”.
As stated in the press service of BP, minesweeper crew “Alexander Obukhov” during a training mission to find mines in the Baltic Sea, recorded the presence of a large underwater object at a depth of about 60 meters in the area of the Baltic Spit. When examining an object using a subkeeping sonar station “Alexandrite” and a standard remote-controlled unmanned underwater vehicle, it was found, that this object is presumably a sunken submarine of the Second World War.
Crew of a sea minesweeper “Alexander Obukhov” Of the Baltic Fleet, during the planned training tasks for the search and detection of training mines, recorded the presence of a large underwater object. As a result of the work carried out by military sailors in the territorial waters of the Russian Federation, an underwater object was discovered, lying on the ground at a depth 60 meters near the Baltic Spit in the Kaliningrad region
– It said in a statement.
The press service notes, that the final identification of the detected object as a submarine, poor visibility in the detection area interferes with the story, as well as the presence of old fishing nets on the superstructure of the object. Further work on the inspection and identification of the submarine will be carried out later..
note, what is for the crew of the minesweeper “Alexander Obukhov” this find is not the first. Last year, at the end of June, when examining the bottom in the area of Bolshoy Tyuters Island in the Baltic at a depth 70 meters, the ship's crew discovered the S-12 submarine of the USSR Navy, killed during the Great Patriotic War.
Minesweeper “Alexander Obukhov” is the lead in a series of mine defense ships of the project 12700, entered the fleet in December 2016 of the year.
ship project 12700 designed by TsMKB “diamond”, built on “Mid-Nevsky Shipyard”, designed to search for and destroy mines in the waters of naval bases at a safe distance for the ship. ship displacement 890 tonnes, length - 61 meter, width - 10 m, travel speed at full displacement - 16,5 host, crew - 44 man. To combat mines, the ship can use various types of trawls., as well as remote-controlled and autonomous unmanned underwater vehicles.
