The Underwater Rescue of Champion Swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan

On September 16, 1976, an eleven-time world record-breaking athlete completed a twenty-kilometer training run along Yerevan Lake in Soviet Armenia. Minutes later, a loud crash shattered the afternoon air. A crowded trolleybus veered off a dam wall and plunged into the murky reservoir, sinking 10 meters to the bottom. What followed was a massive underwater […]

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