Full Description
5 August 2005. While conducting a secret mission thirty miles off the remote cost of Kamchatka, the Russian Navy submarine AS-28 became snared in the thick cables anchored to 60-tonne concrete blocks. Without power the stricken boat sunk to the seafloor. Trapped 600 feet down - too deep to escape - her crew of seven now had just seventy two hours before the air onboard ran out. Twenty-four hours later, after the failure of the Russian Navy's attempt to rescue them, Commander Ian Riches, boss of the Royal Navy's Submarine rescue team, got the call: there was a sub down, and the clock was ticking. In the meantime, the crew onboard AS-28 climbed into thick thermal suits to keep the freezing cold at bay and waited, desperate to eke out the stale thin air inside the pressure-hull of their submarine. But as the first of them begins to drift in and out of consciousness, they knew their time was running out. 72 Hours tells the story of an extraordinary, edge-of-the-seat real-life drama. It's the gripping, inside story of one of the most dramatic rescue attempts of recent years, by the man who led it.
