NATO to train rescuing Russian submarine

MOSCOW, June 3 (Itar-Tass) -- NATO forces will for the first time ever
train to rescue the crew of a Russian submarine during the Bold
Monarch-2011 exercise at the Spanish coast.
The Russian defense ministry said on Thursday Chief-of-Staff of the
armed forces Nikolai Makarov arrived in Spain to watch the world's largest
submarine rescue exercise.
"According to the program of the event, the participants will watch
evacuation of navymen from a troubled Russian submarine by a foreign
rescue craft," it said adding such rescue action will be trained for the
first time ever.
Russia sent Black Sea fleet warships to the exercise comprising diesel
submarine Alrosa, rescue vessel Epron, rescue tugboat Shakhter, and
KIL-157 ship.
The defense ministry said Russian participation was unprecedentedly
big in the current 12-day exercise in which 25 countries participate.