Norwegian effort to find survivors fails

MOSCOW, AUG. 20. Norwegian divers today failed in their attempts to find a way into the ill-fated submarine, Kursk, as hopes of finding survivors among the 118 crew appeared to be receding fast. The divers failed to open the badly damaged escape hatch of the vessel and rescuers may now try to use a powerful crane to wrest it open, the Deputy Russian premier, Mr. Ilya Klebanov, told Russia's RTR TV from the rescue scene.

Due to heavy damage of the emergency exit hatch, the British state-of-the-art LR-5 mini-submarine will not be able to latch onto the dock with the submarine, he said.

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