Crews work to raise sunken sub

PROVIDENCE -- A mission to raise a Russian submarine that sank in the Providence River last year began Wednesday.

The U.S. Department of Defense along with Army and Navy divers and salvage crews hope to get the submarine upright by next week and out of the water in July.

"The submarine is lying on its port side on the bottom," said U.S. Navy Cmdr. Dan Shultz. "It's completely flooded and it's in some state of disrepair after staying there for a year."

The submarine, known as Juliett 484, was moored at Collier Point Park and used as a museum.

It sank during a storm in April 2007.