Russian sub lifted to surface. All hands safe?

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian mini-submarine that was tangled in cables 600 feet down in the Pacific, has resurfaced, Russian news agencies said on Sunday.

Interfax said the AS-28 vessel was lifted to the surface with all seven crew members, quoting the Russian Pacific Fleet Command.

A British Scorpio, an unmanned undersea rescue vehicle that rushed at Moscow's request to Russia's far east Kamchatka peninsula, had earlier dived down and started work cutting the stricken vessel free, Russia's Pacific Fleet press service said.

"It (the Scorpio) arrived at the AS-28 mini-submarine and at 0305 Moscow time (1905 EDT) started to cut the main cable keeping the underwater machine in the deep," Interfax quoted Alexander Kosolapov, the head of the press service, as saying.

The report doesn't say in so many words that the crew was alive when lifted to the surface. We hope that they are and bravo to the Brits for cutting the sub loose.