1.   Mammoet, a major operator of heavy-lift equipment, proposed raising the Kursk using a huge barge equipped with hydraulic lifting devices.

2.   Steel cables will be attached to those holes, and hydraulic lifting devices will be used to raise the massive vessel to the surface.

3.   The cables will be connected to hydraulic lifting devices anchored to a giant barge, which will bring the Kursk to the Arctic port of Murmansk.

4.   The cables will be linked to hydraulic lifting devices anchored to a giant barge that would hoist the Kursk to the surface.

5.   The companies plan to lift the Kursk using hydraulic devices mounted on a giant barge.

6.   The holes in the hull will be used to attach the submarine to cables connected to a hydraulic lifting device anchored to a barge.

7.   The next major step in the salvage effort will be to attach steel cables linked to the hydraulic lifting devices that will raise the vessel to the service.