Two Russian mini-subs that have spent the...

Anatoly Sagalevich of Russia"s Shirshov Institute of Oceanology said that the Russia"s Mir-1 and Mir-2 mini-subs would join an international scientific project in the Atlantic this year and would probably dive to the Titanic.

"The mini-subs are currently being stored near Lake Baikal and will start their work in summer," Sagalevich said.

A source in the Institute of Oceanology earlier told RIA Novosti that the Akademik Mstislav Keldysh research vessel, which carries the mini-subs, is currently in German waters and plans to research in the Barents Sea this summer.

The expedition to Lake Baikal started in 2008. Last summer, researchers sought new species of flora and fauna, and dove down more than a mile (1.6 kilometers) to the deepest point of the lake, near Olkhon Island.

Mir-1 and Mir-2 worked in the southern part of the lake, and in August 2009 the expedition moved to Baikal"s north, where gas hydrates, crystalline solids, and large amounts of methane

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