MOSCOW, August 6 (RIA Novosti) - A fishing net and a rope wound around the stricken submersible's propeller three times, Deputy Chief of the Russian General Staff Vladimir Pepelyayev said.
He showed a scheme of an AS-28 deep-see vessel entangled in a net and a rope to journalists.
Pepelyayev assumed that it could have happened when the vessel had been turning around.