Either in the Summer of Autumn of 1982, Mark Shteynberg, along with Lt. Colonel Gennady Zverev were conducting periodic training of the reconnaisance divers (also known as frogmen) of the Turkestan and Central Asian military regions. These excercises were taking place in Issyk-Kul, a deep-water lake in the Transiliysk Ala Tau area of Kyrgyzstan. Strangely, a very important official by the name of Major-General V. Demyanko, who was the commander of the Military Diver Service of the Engineer Forces of the Ministry of Defense in the USSR, paid a visit to the officers. Demyanko informed the officers that frogmen on similar training exercises in the Trans-Baikal and West Siberian military regions had encountered 'underwater swimmers' that were human-like but extremely large - being almost three metres in height.
These swimming humanoids were clad in silvery suits that fit tightly around their bodies, and were wearing no equipment or scuba-diving apparatus of any kind despite their depth of fifty metres below the surface. Instead of any human technology, these entities wore sphere-like helmets that concealed their heads. Rightly quite alarmed by these occurences, the local military commander decided to capture one of the aquatic giants. Under the command of an officer, a special group of seven divers were dispatched to carry out this mission. According to the account in which I heard of this anomalous event, the divers apparently were (un)lucky enough to come face to face with one of the humanoids. As the frogmen attempted to capture the giant with a net, the entire group was thrown out of the deep water and up to the surface by some unknown force.
Because the equipment used by the frogmen does not allow surfacing from such depths without the following of the usual decompression process, all the members of the group were struck with aeroebolism (decompression sickness). The only available treatment for this at the time was immediate isolation under decompressive conditions in pressure chambers. Several chambers of this type were in the area, but only one of them was in working condition - and could only contain a maximum of two people. Stupidly, four frogmen were forced into the chamber, and three of them (including the leader of the group) died as a result of this. The rest of them became invalids.
After this event, the previously-mentioned Major-General rushed to Issyk-Kul to warn Shteynberg and Zverev against taking similar actions if the mysterious divers were encountered. Although Issyk-Kul is shallower than the Baikal Lake in which the humanoids were encountered, the depth of the former was apparently deemed sufficient to contain the anomalous beings. The website from which I learnt this story seemed to suggest that the Major-General may have known something that Shteynberg didn't, but this just sounds like needless conspiracy mongering.
It is interesting to note that the staff headquarters of the Turkmenistan Military Region received an order from the Commander-in-Chief of the Land Forces, containing an analysis of the Baikal Lake events and reprimands. This order was supplemented by an information bulletin from the Engineer Forces of the Ministry of Defense headquarters, which listed numerous deepwater lakes in which there had been registered encounters with anomalous things. These things included the appearance of underwater humanoids much like those seen at Baikal, the descent and surfacing of 'giant discs and spheres' (USOs) and powerful luminescence emanating from the deep.
I found this case on two semi-trustworthy UFO websites, and so please take the story with a heaping helping of salt, especially as it seems almost too 'action movie' to be true. If there were actually military deaths caused by aquatic giants, then it would either be so highly-classified that nerdy websites would never know about it, or it would initiate a massive-scale investigation of which the world would have known.
Sources: http://www.ufoinfo.com/news/ruc.shtml and http://ufoupdateslist.com/2003/oct/m26-008.shtml
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