Russia’s only aircraft carrier damaged as its floating dry dock sinks

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Russia's one and only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, is in the middle of a long-forestalled refit in Murmansk. But its repairs may take a bit longer now that the floating dry dock that was carrying it at Murmansk's Shipyard 82 suddenly sank-causing a giant crane to crash onto the Kuznetsov and gash a 16-foot hole in its hull. One shipyard worker is missing, and four others were hospitalized-two of them in critical condition.

The floating dry dock, the PD-50-one of the largest in the world-apparently sank as the result of a power outage following a power surge at the shipyard, possibly related to damage to power lines caused by ice.

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