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Father show your mercy through the rescuers we pray in Jesus name. Amen

Lord God Almighty, Moan (The Dwelling Place, Refuge, Shield), may you be these 7 men's protection and safe place until they are rescued.

Give speed to those trying to save these men- and let your name be glorified. Yahweh Yireh, provide a way of escape!

In Jesus mighty name I pray, Amen.

Amen!

And use it for your glory some how!



Is there an object lesson in this? Seven is a very symbolic number.

as you read this account, you will notice the numbers 600,
60, and 6 and 66....look for them. they are buried in "the deep"...
but the 7 surface......alive.

think about how Jonah felt....tangled up.
the deep over his head.

i prayed for these men, thinking about them, knowing they themselves were praying, as there is no 'atheist' in a 'ship caught in a storm', but even more so, one caught alive at the bottom of the sea... this is to be a witness to God.

it serves as a simple sign that God is able to rescue the "7"
despite its seemingly hopeless situation that will come to be...
i hope you will 'see' this the way i do...
it is for our encouragement.
not to look to men, but to God, who is the hearer of prayer.

love to you all!

-bz



here it is:

All 7 Aboard Russian Submarine Rescued

Aug 7, 8:50 AM (ET)

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

(AP) The AS-28 mini-submarine crew, with Lt. Vyacheslav Milashevsky, commander of the vessel, at right,...
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PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, Russia (AP) - Seven people on a submarine trapped for nearly three days under the Pacific Ocean were rescued Sunday after a British remote-controlled vehicle cut away undersea cables that had snarled their vessel, allowing it to surface.

The seven, whose oxygen supplies had been dwindling, appeared to be in satisfactory condition when they emerged, naval spokesman Capt. Igor Dygalo said. They were examined in the clinic of a naval ship, then transferred to a larger vessel to return to the mainland.

About five hours after their rescue, six of them were brought to a hospital on the mainland for examination, waving to relatives as they went in; the seventh was kept aboard a hospital ship for unspecified reasons.

The mini-sub's commander, Lt. Vyacheslav Milashevsky, was pale and appeared overwhelmed when he got off the ship that brought the men to shore. But he told journalists he was "fine" before climbing into a mini-van to take him to the hospital.


(AP) A computer-generated image shows a Russian plan to rescue a mini submarine, AS-28, called a Priz,...
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His wife, Yelena, earlier said she was overjoyed when she learned the crew had been rescued.

"My feelings danced. I was happy. I cried," she told Channel One.

The sub surfaced at 4:26 p.m. local time Sunday, some three days after becoming entangled in 600 feet of water off the Pacific Coast on Thursday and after a series of failed attempts to drag it closer to shore or haul it closer to the surface. It was carrying six sailors and a representative of the company that manufactured it.

"The crew opened the hatch themselves, exited the vessel and climbed aboard a speedboat," said Rear Adm. Vladimir Pepelyayev, deputy head of the naval general staff.

"I can only thank our English colleagues for their joint work and the help they gave in order to complete this operation within the time we had available - that is, before the oxygen reserves ran out," he said.


(AP) A computer-generated image shows Russian rescue ships trying to lift closer to the surface a mini...
Full Image


The men aboard the mini-sub waited out tense hours of uncertainty as rescuers raced to free them before their air supply ran out. They put on thermal suits to insulate them against temperatures of about 40 F inside the sub and were told to lie flat and breathe as lightly as possible to conserve oxygen.

To save electricity, they turned off the submarine's lights and used communications equipment only sporadically to contact the surface.

"The crew were steadfast, very professional," Pepelyayev said on Channel One television. "Their self-possession allowed them to conserve the air and wait for the rescue operation."

In an echo of the Kursk sinking, President Vladimir Putin had made no public comment by Sunday on the mini-sub drama. Putin remained on vacation as the Kursk disaster unfolded, raising criticism that he appeared either callous or ineffectual.

But in sharp contrast to the August 2000 Kursk disaster, when authorities held off asking for help until hope was nearly exhausted, Russian military officials quickly made an urgent appeal for help from U.S. and British authorities. All 118 people on board the Kursk died, some surviving for hours as oxygen ran out.


(AP) U.S. military personnel unload a power generator from the USAF C-5 transport plane at the airport...
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As U.S. and British crews headed toward the trapped sub, Russian officials considered various ways of freeing the vessel.

Russian ships had tried to tow the sub and its entanglements to shallower water where divers could reach it, but were able to move it only about 60-100 yards in the Beryozovaya Bay about 10 miles off the coast of the Kamchatka peninsula, which juts into the sea north of Japan.

But by Sunday afternoon, a British remote-controlled Super Scorpio cut away the cables that had snarled the 44-foot mini submarine and it was able to come to the surface on its own.

Even the British rescue was hampered though. A mechanical problem with the Super Scorpio forced workers to bring the rescue vehicle to the surface, just after the discovery of a fishing net caught on the nose of the submarine, Russian officials said.

The United States also dispatched a crew and three underwater vehicles to Kamchatka, but they never left the port.


(AP) This undated picture provided by the family shows Vyacheslav Milashevsky, 25, commander of a...
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Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, who went to Kamchatka to supervise the operation, praised the international efforts.

"We have seen in deeds, not in words, what the brotherhood of the sea means."

Officials said the Russian submarine was participating in a combat training exercise and got snarled on an underwater antenna assembly that is part of a coastal monitoring system. The system is anchored with a weight of about 66 tons, according to news reports.

The sub's propeller initially became ensnared in a fishing net, they said.

The events and an array of confusing and contradictory statements - with wildly varying estimates of how much air the crew had left - darkly echoed the sinking of the Kursk.

Russia's cash-strapped navy apparently lacks rescue vehicles capable of operating at the depth where the sub was stranded, and officials say it was too deep for divers to reach or the crew to swim out on their own.

The submarine's problems indicated that promises by Putin to improve the navy's equipment apparently have had little effect. He was criticized for his slow response to the Kursk crisis and reluctance to accept foreign assistance.

The new crisis has been highly embarrassing for Russia, which will hold an unprecedented joint military exercise with China later this month, including the use of submarines to settle an imaginary conflict in a foreign land. In the exercise, Russia is to field a naval squadron and 17 long-haul aircraft.

New criticism arose within hours of the mini-sub's crew being rescued. Dmitry Rogozin, head of the nationalist Rodina party in the lower house of parliament, said he would demand an assessment from the Military Prosecutor's Office of the navy's performance in the incident, the Interfax news agency reported.

Rogozin said he wants to know why Russia has not acquired underwater vehicles similar to the ones provided by Britain and the United States and "why fishing nets and cables litter the area of naval maneuvers."

"It appears the naval command is not in control of the area of naval exercises," he said, according to Interfax.



and i would say, that Rogozin is correct in his assesment.
men are not in control.....
but the TRUE GOD IS!

all glory and praise and power and thanks and honor and strength and wisdom belong to Him.

and to HIM alone.

love,
bz
_________________
Be true. Be true to yourself. If we are true to ourself, we can never be false to another. And always, always, remember our Grand Creator. That One is deserving of Praise.

object lesson? YES!
as you read this account, you will notice the numbers 600,
60, and 6 and 66....look for them. they are buried, in "the deep"...
but the '7' surface......alive.

think about how Jonah felt....tangled up.
the deep over his head. God is able to carry out his will.

i, along with you, prayed for these men, thinking about them, knowing they themselves were praying, as there is no 'atheist' in a 'ship caught in a storm', but even more so, one caught alive at the bottom of the sea... this is to be a witness to God.

and what He YET will do..

it serves as a simple sign that God is able to rescue the "7"
despite its seemingly hopeless situation that is/will come to be...
i hope you will 'see' this the way i do...
it is for our encouragement.
not to look to men, but to God, who is the hearer of prayer.

and do not become entablged in the nets and snares of men.
(the snare they set, they themselves will be caught in.)

love to you all!

-bz

remember Jonah, and think of the time he spent in the belly of the big fish....when he came out...he went to Ninevah, just as God had told him to do (he had been running the other way)....this relates to the two witnesses who will be dead for 3 1/2 days...(ie: 3 days, and 3 nights.)

ps...the sub looks like a "clown fish"....do you see the orange and white stripes? LOL

there is truth everywhere and lessons galore...(object lessons, yes)

but, here it is:

All 7 Aboard Russian Submarine Rescued

Aug 7, 8:50 AM (ET)

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

(AP) The AS-28 mini-submarine crew, with Lt. Vyacheslav Milashevsky, commander of the vessel, at right,...
Full Image

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, Russia (AP) - Seven people on a submarine trapped for nearly three days under the Pacific Ocean were rescued Sunday after a British remote-controlled vehicle cut away undersea cables that had snarled their vessel, allowing it to surface.

The seven, whose oxygen supplies had been dwindling, appeared to be in satisfactory condition when they emerged, naval spokesman Capt. Igor Dygalo said. They were examined in the clinic of a naval ship, then transferred to a larger vessel to return to the mainland.

About five hours after their rescue, six of them were brought to a hospital on the mainland for examination, waving to relatives as they went in; the seventh was kept aboard a hospital ship for unspecified reasons.

The mini-sub's commander, Lt. Vyacheslav Milashevsky, was pale and appeared overwhelmed when he got off the ship that brought the men to shore. But he told journalists he was "fine" before climbing into a mini-van to take him to the hospital.


(AP) A computer-generated image shows a Russian plan to rescue a mini submarine, AS-28, called a Priz,...
Full Image


His wife, Yelena, earlier said she was overjoyed when she learned the crew had been rescued.

"My feelings danced. I was happy. I cried," she told Channel One.

The sub surfaced at 4:26 p.m. local time Sunday, some three days after becoming entangled in 600 feet of water off the Pacific Coast on Thursday and after a series of failed attempts to drag it closer to shore or haul it closer to the surface. It was carrying six sailors and a representative of the company that manufactured it.

"The crew opened the hatch themselves, exited the vessel and climbed aboard a speedboat," said Rear Adm. Vladimir Pepelyayev, deputy head of the naval general staff.

"I can only thank our English colleagues for their joint work and the help they gave in order to complete this operation within the time we had available - that is, before the oxygen reserves ran out," he said.


(AP) A computer-generated image shows Russian rescue ships trying to lift closer to the surface a mini...
Full Image


The men aboard the mini-sub waited out tense hours of uncertainty as rescuers raced to free them before their air supply ran out. They put on thermal suits to insulate them against temperatures of about 40 F inside the sub and were told to lie flat and breathe as lightly as possible to conserve oxygen.

To save electricity, they turned off the submarine's lights and used communications equipment only sporadically to contact the surface.

"The crew were steadfast, very professional," Pepelyayev said on Channel One television. "Their self-possession allowed them to conserve the air and wait for the rescue operation."

In an echo of the Kursk sinking, President Vladimir Putin had made no public comment by Sunday on the mini-sub drama. Putin remained on vacation as the Kursk disaster unfolded, raising criticism that he appeared either callous or ineffectual.

But in sharp contrast to the August 2000 Kursk disaster, when authorities held off asking for help until hope was nearly exhausted, Russian military officials quickly made an urgent appeal for help from U.S. and British authorities. All 118 people on board the Kursk died, some surviving for hours as oxygen ran out.


(AP) U.S. military personnel unload a power generator from the USAF C-5 transport plane at the airport...
Full Image


As U.S. and British crews headed toward the trapped sub, Russian officials considered various ways of freeing the vessel.

Russian ships had tried to tow the sub and its entanglements to shallower water where divers could reach it, but were able to move it only about 60-100 yards in the Beryozovaya Bay about 10 miles off the coast of the Kamchatka peninsula, which juts into the sea north of Japan.

But by Sunday afternoon, a British remote-controlled Super Scorpio cut away the cables that had snarled the 44-foot mini submarine and it was able to come to the surface on its own.

Even the British rescue was hampered though. A mechanical problem with the Super Scorpio forced workers to bring the rescue vehicle to the surface, just after the discovery of a fishing net caught on the nose of the submarine, Russian officials said.

The United States also dispatched a crew and three underwater vehicles to Kamchatka, but they never left the port.


(AP) This undated picture provided by the family shows Vyacheslav Milashevsky, 25, commander of a...
Full Image


Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, who went to Kamchatka to supervise the operation, praised the international efforts.

"We have seen in deeds, not in words, what the brotherhood of the sea means."

Officials said the Russian submarine was participating in a combat training exercise and got snarled on an underwater antenna assembly that is part of a coastal monitoring system. The system is anchored with a weight of about 66 tons, according to news reports.

The sub's propeller initially became ensnared in a fishing net, they said.

The events and an array of confusing and contradictory statements - with wildly varying estimates of how much air the crew had left - darkly echoed the sinking of the Kursk.

Russia's cash-strapped navy apparently lacks rescue vehicles capable of operating at the depth where the sub was stranded, and officials say it was too deep for divers to reach or the crew to swim out on their own.

The submarine's problems indicated that promises by Putin to improve the navy's equipment apparently have had little effect. He was criticized for his slow response to the Kursk crisis and reluctance to accept foreign assistance.

The new crisis has been highly embarrassing for Russia, which will hold an unprecedented joint military exercise with China later this month, including the use of submarines to settle an imaginary conflict in a foreign land. In the exercise, Russia is to field a naval squadron and 17 long-haul aircraft.

New criticism arose within hours of the mini-sub's crew being rescued. Dmitry Rogozin, head of the nationalist Rodina party in the lower house of parliament, said he would demand an assessment from the Military Prosecutor's Office of the navy's performance in the incident, the Interfax news agency reported.

Rogozin said he wants to know why Russia has not acquired underwater vehicles similar to the ones provided by Britain and the United States and "why fishing nets and cables litter the area of naval maneuvers."

"It appears the naval command is not in control of the area of naval exercises," he said, according to Interfax.



and i would say, that Rogozin is correct in his assesment.
men are not in control.....
but the TRUE GOD IS!

all glory and praise and power and thanks and honor and strength and wisdom belong to Him.

and to HIM alone.

love,
bz
_________________
Be true. be true to yourself. If we are true to ourself, we can never be false to another. And always, always, remember our Grand Creator. That One is deserving of Praise.

Father in Heaven,

Thank You and praise You for the Rescue.
Bring us Peace and Helpfulness in the world today.

dennis manning