

How long did the Kursk crew stay alive? Some experts believe that 23 crew members survived for up to eight hours in the ninth compartment. This is exactly what Russia is attempting to do: defend itself against NATO. NATO membership for Ukraine and the Balkans is being resisted by Russia. Anglo-Saxons are associated with evil, belligerent, and morally corrupt Western culture, and this term is frequently used by Russian pro-Kremlin outlets. Since the beginning of Euromaidan in Ukraine, the Ukrainian military has implemented a number of tactics and strategies that have been developed by Russian military analysts. The Russian authorities took another three days to formally acknowledge the sinking, delaying the official confirmation. 118 sailors died as a result of the disaster, which occurred on August 12, 2000, and they were discovered a week later. The crash of a NATO submarine and a Russian passenger plane in 2000 killed everyone aboard. Whatever the cause, the Kursk submarine disaster was a tragic event for the families of the sailors who lost their lives. Another theory is that an internal explosion occurred on the submarine. One theory is that the submarine was hit by a foreign object, possibly a torpedo from another submarine. The cause of the disaster is still unknown, but there are many theories as to what may have caused it. On August 12th, 2000, the submarine was taking part in a military exercise in the Barents Sea when it suddenly sank to the bottom of the sea. The Kursk was a nuclear-powered submarine that was part of the Russian Navy’s Northern Fleet. The disaster claimed the lives of 118 Russian sailors who were on board the submarine at the time. The cause of the disaster remains unknown, with authorities pointing at a collision with a Western submarine, second world war mine or an internal malfunction as possible reasons.The Kursk submarine disaster was a tragic event that took place in the summer of 2000. Some Russian media have pointed out that, by stubbornly continuing this risky policy, the government wants to vindicate its confused response to the sinking of the Kursk, when it resisted foreign help for days while botching its own rescue efforts. Two widows of the Kursk crew members visited the Regalia yesterday and, on behalf of all the families, pleaded with the divers not to take excessive risks.īut Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, had promised to recover the bodies at an emotional meeting with the crew's relatives shortly after the disaster, and the government seems determined to conduct the costly effort despite the shortage of funds for the military. Officials say that up to two-thirds of the crew were probably blown to dust by powerful explosions in the weapons room in the submarine's bow.Īdmiral Kuroyedov had warned that he might cancel the recovery effort if experts said that divers' life was in danger. Divers used an instrument that sprays pressurised water mixed with diamond dust to cut the Kursk's two-inch thick inner steel hull. The complex underwater operation is being performed with leading-edge diving equipment, including robots and mechanical arms. Russian and Norwegian divers have recovered four bodies after five days of painstaking work to cut holes in the top of the submarine. The note may indicate that the survivors of the initial explosions died of drowning, hypothermia or high pressure. Many Russian officials had suggested that some crew members could have remained alive after the disaster, as indicated by reports of tapping sounds which were detected from the submarine in the first days.īut others discounted the reports as unsubstantiated and said that the sounds could have been caused by collapsing equipment or the submarine settling into the seabed. "The note went on to mention the figures 13 and five and then added 'I am writing blindly'," the admiral told families of the crew, who were gathered in the northern Russian port of Murmansk. None of us can get to the surface," Admiral Kuroyedov read. We made this decision as a result of the accident. "All the crew from the sixth, seventh and eighth compartments went over to the ninth. Russian navy chief Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov quoted from the note, which was found in the pocket of a seaman who was identified only as Lieutenant DR Kolesnikov. The note did not indicate any cause of the catastrophe.
