MOSCOW, July 13 (RIA Novosti) - Congo authorities want Russian mini-subs involved in deep-water research into Siberia's Lake Baikal to assist in a study of Lake Tanganyika, a senior official for Russia's Metropol investment company in Congo said.
Tanganyika is the world's second deepest freshwater lake after Baikal. The lake is divided between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Tanzania, Zambia and Burundi.
"I arrived here with the hope that experience in the studying of Baikal would help us," Sammi Kimbata said. "We would like Russian Mir mini-subs involved in the search of Baikal to participate in the study of Tanganyika."
The Mir-1 and Mir-2 mini-subs, which carried out 52 dives in Lake Baikal last summer, have recently resumed a study of the lake. Research earlier discovered evidence that most of Lake Baikal is much younger than its widely accepted age of 25 million years.
The study and preservation of Tanganyika, whose over 2,000 forms of life are threatened by pollution, may be hampered by the fact that it stretches across four countries, Kimbata said.
"We should agree how to study and save the lake. If one nation stops the pollution this must be done by the others, or it will be senseless," he said.
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