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

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However, he warned that the trip could be hampered by bad weather which would stop the salvage team from taking the shortest route possible. Fragments of both the outer and inner hulls were found nearby, including a piece of Kursk 's nose weighing 5t (5.5 short tons), indicating a large explosion in the forward torpedo room. [37] [38] British and Norwegian help [ edit ] The British deep submersible rescue vehicle LR5 The fact is that these [vehicles] were created especially for use with various types of submarines, including for the Kursk," Kuznetsov says. "But they were never, not once, tested with it -- not during sea trials, not during the submarine's [four years of] service, and not during the preparation for these exercises." Robert Moore's book, A Time to Die: The Kursk Disaster , was an acclaimed account of the failed attempt to rescue the sailors trapped aboard the Russian nuclear-powered submarine.

On Thursday at 12:00, Popov reported to the general staff of the Navy that no explosion had occurred on the Kursk, that the sub was intact on the seafloor, and that an "external influence" might have caused a leak between the first and second compartments. [19] On Thursday, the Russian DSRV made another attempt to reach the aft area of the submarine, but it was unable to create the vacuum seal necessary to attach to the escape trunk. [24] The Russians' 32-hour response time was widely criticised. [34] All 118 crewmen lost their lives in the disaster: a devastating blow to Russian military pride and the reputation of the recently elected President Vladimir Putin, who refused to cut short his holiday to deal with the crisis. KURSK is the first ever adventure and documentary video game inspired by real events. You assume the role of a spy who finds way on the Russian nuclear submarine K-141 Kursk. Your task is to collect secret information about the revolutionary Shkval supercavitating torpedoes. While trying to complete your mission, you become witness to the dramatic events which shook the world at that time. A consortium formed by the Dutch companies Mammoet and Smit International [23] was awarded a contract by Russia to raise the vessel, excluding the bow. They modified the barge Giant 4 which raised Kursk and recovered the remains of the sailors. [24]

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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. On Sunday 20 August, the Norwegians lowered a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to the submarine. They found that the first 18m (59ft) section of the boat was a mass of twisted metal and debris. [16] The Oscar IIs were big because they carried big missiles. Each submarine carried 24 P-700 Granit missiles, which themselves were the size of a small plane—33 feet long and weighing 15,400 pounds each. The missiles had a top speed of Mach 1.6, a range of 388 miles, and used the now-defunct Legenda satellite targeting system to home in on their aircraft carrier targets. A Granit could carry a 1,653-pound conventional high-explosive warhead (enough to damage a carrier) or a 500-kiloton warhead (enough to vaporize an aircraft carrier with a single hit). On Sunday, after Popov already knew that Kursk was missing and presumed sunk, he briefed reporters on the progress of the naval exercise. He said the exercise had been a resounding success and spoke highly of the entire operation. [6] :149 [20] :23 Rumours among family members [ edit ] Nonetheless, Kuznetsov says, the Russian government and military still have much to answer for, beginning with Putin himself. As commander in chief of the armed forces, Kuznetsov says, Putin was obligated to know the fatal naval exercise -- which was the largest in Russia's post-Soviet history -- inside and out.

Fifteen years after the dramatic sinking of the Kursk nuclear submarine with the loss 118 lives in August 2000, lawyer Boris Kuznetsov sees the tragedy as a turning point for modern Russia. The open valve in the ventilation system allowed the huge blast wave and possibly the fire and toxic smoke to enter the second and perhaps the third and fourth compartments, as well. Although the sub was at periscope depth with its radio antennas extended, no one in the command post was able to send a distress signal or press a single button that would initiate an emergency ballast tank blow and bring the submarine to the surface. [73] [14] All 36 men in the command post located in the second compartment were immediately incapacitated by the blast wave and likely killed. [26] Secondary explosion [ edit ] At 11:29:34 (07:29:34 GMT), seismic detectors at the Norwegian seismic array (NORSAR) and in other locations around the world recorded a seismic event of magnitude 1.5 on the Richter scale. [15] The location was fixed at coordinates 69°38′N 37°19′E / 69.633°N 37.317°E / 69.633; 37.317, north-east of Murmansk, approximately 250km (160mi) from Norway, and 80km (50mi) from the Kola Peninsula. [16] Secondary event [ edit ] A retired Russian Admiral raised speculation that the country’s worst post-soviet naval catastrophe occurred as a faulty torpedo belonging to the US had collided with Kursk, causing the dually-pressurised hulls of the submarine to explode. These speculations arose from the fact that the western submarine was also damaged by the powerful explosion and sent a distress signal. The Russian Media reports highlighted that three US submarines were spotted near the area where the disaster happened. According to the articles, Captain Lyachin of the Kursk sent a message to headquarters just before the explosion, saying: 'We have a malfunctioning torpedo. Request permission to fire it.'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. They ran out of money,” says Philip D Grove, a naval historian and lecturer at Britannia Royal Navy College. “People were short of pay, there were poorly trained conscripts, and some of them were giving up their jobs. The whole thing was breaking down by the mid-to-late Nineties. The film could even have played even more on the critical downsizing of the Russian Navy, because psychologically that was important for everyone involved.” Rosenberg, Debra, et al. "A Mystery In The Deep." Newsweek 136.9 (2000): 34. Academic Search Premier. Web. 7 December 2011. Rogers, J. David; Koper, Keith D. "Some Practical Applications of Forensic Seismology" (PDF). Missouri University of Science and Technology . Retrieved 5 September 2010. Mayo, a diving platform, was equipped with dive chambers to accommodate the dive teams. They worked in six-hour shifts, and when they were not in the water, the divers remained in the saturation chambers for the entire 28 days the operation took. [94] The divers used hydraulic abrasive water jets to cut 26 holes through both the outer and inner hulls. The salvage divers mounted custom guidance rings around the holes in the sub and lowered guide cables to each through the holes in Giant 4. The team then used the four guide cables to lower a custom-made giant gripper, similar to a toggle bolt, which were custom designed to fit each hole, and the divers manoeuvred them through the guidance ring. [95]