Accidental discovery by divers. The trail leads to Russia

British divers were searching for a Russian tracking device at the bottom of the sea off the coast of Wales. They managed to find them.

The British Broadcasting Corporation reported the discovery of divers – members of the Neptune Army of Waste Cleaners (NARC – a British organization that extracts garbage from the seabed). In mid-November,during a routine expedition near Wooltack Point in Pembrokeshire (southwest Wales),they came across a mysterious device.

During initial examination,they determined that it was probably part of a navigation marker. Later it was believed that it was a sonar buoy,a type of acoustic device used to track submarines. An expert – Dave Kennard,an independent defense analyst – spoke on the matter.

Spying device near UK. It was discovered by a diver

Kennard,who is also,among others,head of NARC,reported that the device was found by Tim Smith-Gosling. A volunteer diver spotted them in the crevice where the buoy was stuck.

According to the BBC’s interlocutor,it is definitely the RGB-1A sonar buoy,which imploded (this is a situation when a device located under water suddenly collapses inward under the influence of strong pressure).

Experts from NARC examined the find together with members of the Port Authority Waterwa (the entity managing the port and the water area around it) and – after careful observations – concluded that the buoy resembles devices used to detect objects under water.

Wales. Retrieving a Russian spy device from the bottom of the sea was quite a feat

The discovered object,which mysteriously appeared off the coast of Wales,measures 120 centimeters and weighs 15 kilograms,Kennard revealed to representatives of a foreign station.

Divers placed it in a special bag (filled with compressed air),which allowed the buoy to be brought to the surface.