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

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The British and Norwegian navies offered assistance, but Russia initially refused all help. [18] All 118 sailors and officers aboard Kursk died. The Russian Admiralty initially told the public that the majority of the crew died within minutes of the explosion, but on 21 August, Norwegian and Russian divers found 24 bodies in the ninth compartment, the turbine room at the stern of the boat. Captain-lieutenant Dmitri Kolesnikov wrote a note listing the names of 23 sailors who were alive in the compartment after the boat sank. 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] The captain of the Sidon, Commander Hugh Verry, who survived the terrible accident, also made the connection. 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]

The divers tried to use the arms of the ROV to open the hatch, but were unsuccessful until the morning of Monday, 21 August; they found the rescue trunk full of water. [15] [16] That morning, they used a custom tool to open the internal hatch of the rescue trunk, releasing a large volume of air from the ninth compartment. Divers lowered a video camera on a rod into the compartment and could see several bodies. [16] Siegel, Robert; Moore, Robert (13 January 2003). " 'A Time to Die': The Kursk Disaster". NPR . Retrieved 14 September 2009.It was this fire that set off the other torpedos and warheads, and even the Kursk could not withstand such a massive explosion. Kursk [38] (also known as "The Command", and "Kursk: The Last Mission"). - The film from 2018 follows the 2000 K-141 Kursk submarine disaster and the governmental negligence that followed. By Thomas Vinterberg. But these explanations seemed to contradict Russian claims about the Kursk's impregnability. It seemed inconceivable that the double hull and nine water-tight compartments of the submarine could have been punctured by anything but the most violent explosion. When commanders made such assurances, Kuznetsov says, they knew that the deep-submergence rescue vehicles had never been tested in conjunction with the Kursk.

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 second theory propounded was about the submarine colliding against the seabed, which caused the weapons kept inside the submarine to explode, leading to a casualty of a mammoth proportion. K-141 Kursk ( Russian: Атомная Подводная Лодка «Курск» (АПЛ «Курск»), transl. Atomnaya Podvodnaya Lodka "Kursk" (APL "Kursk"), meaning "Atomic-powered submarine Kursk") was an Oscar II-class nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine of the Russian Navy. On 12 August 2000, K-141 Kursk was lost when it sank in the Barents Sea, killing all 118 personnel on board. The Guardian wrote in a 2002 review of two books, Kursk, Russia's Lost Pride and A Time to Die: The Kursk Disaster:The nuclear-powered Project 949A Antey (Oscar II class) submarine K-141 Kursk sank in an accident on 12 August 2000 in the Barents Sea. It was taking part in the first major Russian naval exercise in more than 10 years. All 118 personnel on board were killed. The crews of nearby ships felt an initial explosion and a second, much larger explosion, but the Russian Navy did not realise that an accident had occurred and did not initiate a search for the vessel for over six hours. The submarine's emergency rescue buoy had been intentionally disabled during an earlier mission and it took more than 16 hours to locate the submarine, which rested on the ocean floor at a depth of 108m (354ft).