Action-man Putin dons pantsuit to explore Crimea shipwreck in mini-submarine

[Recursion]

Source: South China Morning Post



Russian President Vladimir Putin has burnished his action man image by diving down in a mini-submarine to explore a shipwreck off the coast of the Crimea peninsula that Moscow seized from Ukraine last year.

Putin - wearing a beige pantsuit - plunged down to a depth of 83 metres seated alongside the pilot in the glass-bubble cabin of the Dutch-made vessel on Tuesday.

“83 metres is a pretty substantial depth,” Putin told journalists in televised comments after the dive. “It was interesting.”

The Kremlin strongman went underwater to view the Byzantine-era wreckage in the Black Sea off Crimea that included a trove of 10th century pottery.

Read more: http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1850772/action-man-putin-dons-pantsuit-explore-crimea-shipwreck-mini-submarine

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I mostly just love that headline

[CBGLuthier]

1. I thought they didn't like anything from the west.

Should have taken him down, told him it was not made in Mother Russia but the Netherlands, and opened the hatch.

[lonestarnot]

2. woo a pantsuit. Beige.

[LuckyLib]

3. LOL! I commented to SO - "what's with the emphasis

on the package?"

[msongs]

4. OMG it's like the 85 yr olds in submersibles at Omaha Beach rememberances lol nt

[ellisonz]

5. ...

*spits on the ground*

[Maynar]

6. Total ham.

Equvalencies to Trump come to mind.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

7. Does he feel it's part of the job to look like a Bond villain?

[longship]

8. Where's his cat?

The best Blofeld, from From Russia with Love, also the greatest Bond flick.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Here

[7962]

12. "Look. I tame wild animal. I smell his fear"

[davidpdx]

10. Tomorrow he'll put on his cape and save a cat from a tree

[Monk06]

11. It's Mike Mercury in SUPERCAR !!!!!

Supercar... Supercar...
With beauty and grace,
as swift as can be,
watch it flying through the air.
It travels in space,
or under the sea,
and it can journey anywhere.

Supercar... Supercar...
It travels on land,
or roams the skies,
through a heavens stormy rage,
It's Mercury-manned,
and everyone cries,
"it's the marvel of the age!"

Supercar... Supercar... Supercar!

[NastyRiffraff]

13. I can see Palin drooling from here

as well as all of Fox NotNews. A beige pantsuit! What a man! And Obama still in "mom jeans"