1.   After three days of failed rescue attempts by Russian divers, Putin requested international help to save the crew.

2.   Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov said that the divers would cut six holes in the sub and that Russian divers would enter to retrieve the bodies.

3.   Halliburton workers are overseeing the operation, but only Russian divers are allowed inside the submarine.

4.   Meanwhile, Russian deep-sea divers discharged by the navy for lack of funds say their own offers to help were rebuffed, according to the Moscow newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda.

5.   Russian divers closed inside hatches.

6.   Russian divers waited inside the pressurized living compartments in a lower deck aboard the Regalia.

7.   Russian divers moved slowly, pulling bodies out one at a time, raising them to the surface in wire baskets.

8.   Sometimes he assisted the Russian divers, who were not experienced with the equipment or diving at such depths.

9.   The job this time was to cut open the Kursk and help Russian divers retrieve the bodies.