On August 23, the Fund for  Protection of Lake Baikal, which has been leading the scientific and research expedition ‘Mirs on Baikal’ for three years (2008-2010), officially launched its ‘Mirs’ channel on RuTube. Starting today, ‘Mirs’ channel is available as an open resource at http://fssob.rutube.ru. The first videos uploaded to this website are related to James Cameron’s participation in the ‘Mirs on Baikal’ expedition. Today, for the first time in the public access, the resource shows an underwater recording of one of the most unpleasant episodes of the whole expedition – Mir deep submergence vessel hitting the bed of Lake Baikal.
The ‘Mirs’ resource will host all the most memorable videos from the expedition’s archive including the ones that have previously been unavailable to general public. In particular, different emergency situations experienced by the teams, mysterious discoveries on the lake’s bottom, underwater life in details, inexplicable phenomena around Lake Baikal, and many other things are waiting to be made public. The Fund for Protection of Lake Baikal is planning to make the ‘Mirs’ channel the leading resource in Runet in its segment.
The video archive of the Fund for the Protection of Lake Baikal that was collected during the expedition contains hundreds of hours of recordings including unique and previously unreleased videos. The ‘Mirs’ channel is expected to become an unrivalled web resource in terms of the number of rare and unique videos posted on it.