Wreck of the Russian submarine Kursk in dry dock. The submarine experienced a catastrophic explosion in the Barents Sea on August 12, 2000 during Russia's first major post-Soviet naval exercise and sank with a loss of all 118 crew members. It was six more hours before the Russian fleet realized they had lost a vessel and initiated a search operation. The submarine was located at a depth of 354 feet. Russian officials engaged in a considerable degree of misinformation and cover-ups in their reporting of the disaster and President Vladimir Putin, vacationing at his summer home in Sochi, did not take immediate action. The Russians also resisted help from nearby British and Norwegian vessels, but finally accepted their assistance.
A Dutch salvage company raised the wreck on October 2, 2001. Most of the submarine and the remains of all but three crew members were recovered. Investigation into the disaster found that a dummy torpedo had leaked hydrogen peroxide through a faulty weld and caused a catalytic explosion. The 133 page report blamed the disaster on "gross negligence", failure to follow safety procedures, and obsolete, shoddy, and poorly maintained equipment. The Russian navy was also slow to respond to the disaster and was not equipped to handle salvage operations.
these accidents happened in Soviet era all the time of course they were kept strictly secret back then
>>18268082>>18268087absolute humiliation for a country a decade removed from being a global superpower
>>18268082There were guys alive in that sub who finally died after they breathed all the oxygen. Bodies had letters on written to their wives and shit. If Russia had not lied and had accepted help immediately then maybe those guys, or some of them, could have been saved.
One good thing to come of that whole ordeal was that it inspired at least one really good song (if you're into post-rock) - https://youtu.be/qFzjKM2UdnU
>>18268082Am I the only one who was confused with all the Kursk talk going on last year?I thought people were referring to this incident all of a sudden for some reason
>>18268521Kursk is also the name of a city, I guess it had something to do with the Russo-Ukrainian war
>>18268082>>18268369>Putin has just been in office a few months>decides to carry out a dick waving naval exercise to prove Russia stronk the 90s are over and we're back, bitches>this happens
>>18268087>A Dutch salvage company raised the wreck on October 2, 2001. Most of the submarine and the remains of all but three crew members were recovered.The bodies were probably decently preserved as it was in the far north in cold waters and it would be dark and freezing half the year. If this was in the tropics there probably wouldn't be much left of them by the time they dredged the sub up.
>>18268622They were alive there for days too. Its not that everybody died from the explosion.
>>18268622The sub would probably also be badly deteriorated from laying in warm salt water for 14 months, that would cause rather rapid corrosion and decomposition of metal components. Cold Arctic water would slow that down significantly.
>>18268369>needing HATO member cunts to dredge up your subGod that's terrible and cucked.
>>18268649They could've done that when the crew was still alive, or rescued them via other methods. There are sub rescue ships you know. But Putin waited 'til they all had suffocated. Then gave the widows a medal.
>>18268675could be worse. in the Soviet era they would just tell the relatives of the dead that they died in a skiing accident.
For me it's when subs sink in deep water so they get to hear them passing crush depth. The 4 sinkings in 1968 are kino
>>18268675There's a video of one widow yelling at Putin and someone injects her with a sedative, like something out of a movie.
>>18268521Yeah, the Ukrainians captured some scattered farms over the border last year and got 80,000 men encircled and destroyed there by the Russians while the entire south Donbas collapsed. They refused to pull out till the very last moment for propaganda reasons and effectively threw away any chance of them holding onto the Donbas that way then memory holed the whole thing.
