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LAKE BAIKAL, Russia (AFP) - Two Russian mini-submarines on Tuesday dove to the bottom of the world's deepest lake to draw attention to its fragile environment but failed in a record-setting attempt, organisers said.
Six crew members descended over 1,500 meters (4,900 feet) to the floor of Lake Baikal in Siberia in a bid to find new life-forms and encourage Russian authorities to take greater care of its pristine waters.
But after an initial claim to have made the deepest freshwater dive in history, expedition members admitted they had miscalculated.
"There was no record.... We'll try again," expedition leader Artur Chilingarov, a Russian parliamentarian and a celebrated Arctic explorer, said after the dive.
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Six crew members descended over 1,500 meters (4,900 feet) to the floor of Lake Baikal in Siberia in a bid to find new life-forms and encourage Russian authorities to take greater care of its pristine waters.
But after an initial claim to have made the deepest freshwater dive in history, expedition members admitted they had miscalculated.
"There was no record.... We'll try again," expedition leader Artur Chilingarov, a Russian parliamentarian and a celebrated Arctic explorer, said after the dive.
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