Anton Ponomarev: the committee knows a lot. Kursk logbook was lifted

The logbook and notes were lifted by divers from the 4th compartment, “Interfax” announces, citing RF vice-PM Ilya Klebanov. Besides Klebanov stressed that the divers “failed to examine the 4th compartment completely and didn’t lift everything we wanted to”. But what did they want to lift in the course of lifting the bodies? Judging from Klebanov’ words it was “something”, but not the bodies. The fact that they stopped the work in the 9th compartment, where bodies remained, and began it in the 4th compartment sounds curious. And what notes were lifted from the 4th compartment? Does it mean that the people were alive after the accident? Klebanov does not talk any more about “the main task of the operation” – the lifting of the bodies. The words the we “didn’t lift everything we wanted to” gives the key to everything. The divers came down for the concrete subjects, such as logbook and, probably, devices which could fix what had really happened on board. But why did the authorities call the operation “lifting of the bodies”? And if they did call it like that it was essential to lift all the bodies, as much as it was possible. They had to do it in spite of all the difficulties, such as the expiring of the contract with Norway, difficulties connected with cutting out the hole into the 9th compartment, etc.