Rescued!

Said Yelena Milashevsky, wife of the trapped Russian mini-sub AS28, about learning that the crew had been rescued safely:

My feelings danced. I was happy. I cried.

What she said.

The news is reporting that the Russians have been very gracious about thanking the international efforts that helped free the mini-sub from its entanglements — most especially, of course, to the British, as their Scorpio remote-controlled submersible was first on the scene and actually cut the cables. Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, who went to Kamchatka to supervise the operation, praised the international efforts. "We have seen in deeds, not in words, what the brotherhood of the sea means."

An altogether joyous ending for something that could have ended in much differently...