MOSCOW, Russia—Russian President Vladimir Putin burnished his action man image on Tuesday by diving down in a mini-submarine to explore a shipwreck off the coast of the Crimea peninsula that Moscow seized from Ukraine last year.
Putin—wearing a beige pantsuit—plunged down to a depth of 83 meters seated alongside the pilot in the glass-bubble cabin of the Dutch-made vessel.
“83 metees is a pretty substantial depth,” Putin told journalists in televised comments after the dive. “It was interesting.”
The Kremlin strongman went underwater to view the Byzantine-era wreckage in the Black Sea off Crimea that included a trove of 10th …read more
Source: The Philippine Daily Inquirer
