Red Sparrow / Kursk [2DVD] (English audio. English subtitles)

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Captain-Lieutenant Kolesnikov, evidently the senior officer in the compartment, wrote a final note at 15:15 in the dark, giving evidence that he was alive at least four hours after the explosion. [103] Vice Admiral Vladislav Ilyin, first deputy chief of the Russian Navy's staff and head of the Kursk Naval Incident Cell, concluded that the survivors had lived up to three days. [6] :143–145 However, other notes recovered in the ninth compartment were written no later than 6 hours and 17 minutes after the boat sank. [34] Experts feared it would be difficult to overcome the force of the sediment on the sea bottom, but that posed no difficulty.

N. A. "Kursk Inner Hull Breached." Australian, The (n.d.): Newspaper Source Plus. Web. 7 December 2011. vessels' ability to detect the submarine. The inner pressure hull was made of high-quality 50mm (2in) steel plate. The two hulls were separated by a 1-to-2m (3-to-7ft) gap. The inner hull was divided into nine water-tight compartments. The boat was 155m (509ft), about as long as two jumbo jets. [9] [10] Once the human remains had been removed and the hull had been thoroughly investigated, the remainder of the ship was transported to Sayda Bay on the northern Kayla Peninsula. The two nuclear reactors were defuelled and the ship was cut up for scrap. [8] The Kursk, which had been named after the July 1943 Battle of Kursk, the largest tank engagement in history, was one of eleven nuclear-powered Project 949A Antey ( Oscar II) boats built at Seveorvinsk, and was one of the five assigned to the Russian Navy’s Northern Fleet. The other six were assigned to the Pacific Fleet, and while three more were planned, construction was eventually halted. Kursk Relatives Make a Plea for Facts and Justice". St. Petersburg Times. 23 February 2001 . Retrieved 21 February 2011.Moore, Robert (2002), A Time to Die: The Untold Story of the Kursk Tragedy. Crown Publishers NY, NY. ISBN 978-0609610008 Despite fears over safety, the Russian Navy and the salvage team said the reactors have been safely shut down and posed no threat to the salvage effort. No holes were cut in the compartment housing the twin nuclear reactors. The remains of Kursk 's reactor compartment were towed to Sayda Bay on Russia's northern Kola Peninsula, where more than 50 reactor compartments were afloat at pier points, after a shipyard had removed all the fuel from the boat in early 2003. [25] The importance and the need to understand the Kursk submarine disaster is not just because of the mishap that occurred but also because of the very nature of the naval vessel and the theories that followed its sinking in the Barents Sea on the 12 th August 2000, 11.28 am as per the local Russian time.

The force and impact of the explosions on the submarine for quite a while led to fears about a looming nuclear disaster. But these fears were soon put to rest as no abnormal nuclear activity was carried out on the submarine, and the nuclear reactors were shut. In an emergency, personnel in the rear compartments were to move forward to the third compartment along with those in the forward compartments and enter a detachable rescue capsule in the sail (or conning tower), which was capable of evacuating the entire crew. [80] Alternatively, there was also an escape trunk in the first compartment, but the explosion and fire rendered use of it impossible. [11] [34] [81] The rescue capsule in the third compartment was inaccessible, even if it was still usable. [14] Shutdown of nuclear reactors [ edit ] Outside the port city of Severodvinsk where the submarine was built, a large granite slab was erected on the sand dunes. It is engraved, "This sorrowful stone is set in memory of the crew of the nuclear submarine Kursk, who tragically died on 12 August 2000, while on military duty." [23] Other memorials were built in Moscow, [115] Sevastopol, Nizhny Novgorod, and Severomorsk. [71] A memorial was erected in Serafimovskoe Cemetery in St. Petersburg, [116] and the city of Kursk, after which the vessel was named, erected a memorial made from fragments of its hull. [117]On the morning of 12 August 2000, Kursk was in the Barents Sea, participating in the "Summer-X" exercise, the first large-scale naval exercise planned by the Russian Navy in more than a decade, and also its first since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. [7] It consisted of 30 ships and three submarines. [8] United States Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen responded to Russian accusations of a collision with a submarine at a press conference in Tokyo on 22 September 2000. [49]