The bulkhead should have arrested the blast wave,[68] but in keeping with common Russian submarine practice, the pressurised valve in the ventilation system that traversed the bulkhead was left open to minimise the change in pressure during a weapon's launch. [7] One theory offered was an explosion located in the high-pressure air tanks used to blow the ballast tanks, located near the torpedo tubes. On 8 October 2001, fourteen months after the disaster, and only five months after the contract had been awarded to them, the salvage team raised the remainder of the ship in a 15-hour operation. [83] He also said Kursk was designed with two autonomous, independent control systems that would have detected a rise in temperature while the torpedo was stored on the racks. Russian military officers initially gave conflicting accounts, that survivors could have lived up to a week within the sub, but those that died would have been killed very quickly. The incident served as partial inspiration for the song "Six Days at the Bottom of the Ocean" by, The incident also inspired the song "Kursk" by, The incident also partially inspired the song "Travel Is Dangerous" by, The incident was the subject of an episode of the documentary series. [28] Mainstream publications like Der Spiegel, Berliner Zeitung, and the Sunday Times claimed to possess documentation proving that the submarine was struck by a missile fired by Pyotr Velikiy. It was 10.7 m (35 ft) long and weighed 5 t (4.9 long tons; 5.5 short tons). [4] The report said the rescue operation was unjustifiably delayed. Water poured in at 90,000 litres (3,200 cu ft) per second. But the ninth compartment contained a number of independent emergency lights, which apparently worked. The AS-32 returned to the surface at 01:00 on Monday morning, 14 August. [102], While waiting for the boat to be brought to shore, a team of military doctors set up a temporary forensic laboratory at the military hospital in Severomorsk. After Giant 4 was floated out of the drydock, water was drained from the drydock, exposing the Kursk's hull. [9] The bow had ploughed about 22 m (72 ft) deep into the clay seabed, at a depth of 108 m (354 ft). [54] Images of angry family members demanding information or waiting anxiously at the dock for news were shown on media worldwide. [19], The Northern Fleet duty officer notified the head of the fleet's search and rescue forces, Captain Alexander Teslenko, to stand by for orders. [7] The second explosion was equivalent to 2–3 tons of TNT. [4], 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 fall of the Soviet Union. The Government of Russia and the Russian Navy were intensely criticised over the incident and their responses. He said, "To me, this is a clear case of negligence. According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine. vessels' ability to detect the submarine. The boat was as long as two jumbo jets. [26] Media described the Russian government's response to the disaster as "technically inept" and their stories as "totally unreliable". [4] Although this was an exercise, Kursk loaded a full complement of conventional combat weapons. [3] But the level of carbon dioxide in the compartment exceeded that which people can produce in a closed space. [21] But she was not equipped with stabilisers capable of keeping the vessel in position during stormy weather and could lower her rescue vessels only in calm seas. [88], After the bow was cut free, the salvage crews raised several smaller pieces of wreckage. He said that the torpedoes are routinely tested during manufacturing and are dropped from a height of 10 metres (33 ft) without causing damage that could lead to an explosion. She said, "I am sure that the commanders of the Northern Fleet knew that the torpedoes were not in order. [13], When the divers attempted to open the air control valve, it would not move. They're lying. [84] They contracted with the Dutch marine salvage companies Smit International and Mammoet to raise Kursk from the sea floor. [10], On Tuesday, 22 August, 10 days after the sinking, Putin met at 8 p.m. in the Vidyayevo navy base officers' club and cultural centre with about 400–600[4]:154[55]:105 angry and grieving residents of the navy base and about 350 family members of the Kursk's crew. The second explosion would have been the detonation of the remaining torpedoes aboard the submarine. It was unable to locate the submarine, because it had been given an incorrect heading by personnel aboard Pyotr Velikiy. [68] The resulting overpressure ruptured the torpedo's kerosene fuel tank and caused an explosion that was registered as a weak seismic event on detectors hundreds of kilometres away. "[21] Other memorials were built in Moscow,[113] Sevastopol, Nizhny Novgorod, and Severomorsk. [34], Fragments of both the outer and inner hulls were found nearby, including a piece of Kursk's nose weighing 5 t (4.9 long tons; 5.5 short tons), indicating a large explosion in the forward torpedo room. 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. The family members knew from media reports that foreign assistance had been offered on Monday. He said when he watched Putin talk to the families, he had never felt such an intense atmosphere of pain and anger in his entire life. [70] The crew had to complete specific maintenance steps on a regular basis and before firing a torpedo. The ship was designed to carry huge loads on its deck, but Kursk would ride beneath the ship. [47], While the official inquiry was still under way, on 25 October 2000, Commander of the Northern Fleet Popov and his Chief of Staff Motsak were interviewed by the Spanish newspaper El Mundo. [9] Divers found ash and dust inside the compartment when they first opened that hatch, evidence of a fire. But the Arctic water was extremely cold and they could not survive long in the water. Foreign media showed Tylik being removed by officials from the meeting. [61] Immediately after his wife was given the injection, Tylik's husband said he had asked the nurse to give his wife the drug "because she was prone to excessive emotions". Once there, two giant, custom-manufactured pontoons were floated under Giant 4 to lift the barge 20 metres (66 ft) to allow it to enter a floating dry dock with Kursk attached underneath. You assume the role of a spy who finds way on the Russian nuclear submarine K-141 Kursk. 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 fall of the Soviet Union. Kursk's crew had not fired a torpedo for three years, and that torpedo was a much simpler battery-powered type. However, all 12 had been involved with the exercise, the rescue operations, or the submarine itself. Their severely edited broadcast of the meeting showed only the president speaking, eliminating the many emotional and contentious encounters between the President and family members. [70], The Komsomolskaya Pravda tabloid published a report in June 2001 that senior officers in the Russian Navy had engaged in an elaborate deception to cover the actual cause of the disaster. Here's the list of personnel from the other sections, who are now in the ninth and will attempt to get out. [5] On Tuesday Mikhail Rudnitsky lowered a diving bell twice but were unable to connect to the sub. [14], On 21 August, after the Norwegian divers confirmed that no one was alive in the ninth compartment, the Chief of Staff of the Russian Northern Fleet, Mikhail Motsak, announced to the public that the Kursk was flooded and all of its crewmembers had died. This protocol was intended to eliminate the possibility of a collision and to allow surface ships to detect the presence of a Western spy sub. [26] Amelia Gentleman in The Guardian wrote: For President Vladimir Putin, the Kursk crisis was not merely a human tragedy, it was a personal PR catastrophe. She quickly lost the ability to speak and was carried out. Russian navy officers feared that the buoy might accidentally deploy, revealing the submarine's position to the U.S. fleet. “If you want to know what he looked like, here is his exactcopy,” says Lidia Panarina, mother of senior lieutenant Andrei Panarin, pointingat her daughter Olga. [35][36], Private media and state-owned Russian newspapers criticised the navy's refusal to accept international assistance. It took ten days to detach the bow. [12], Analysis revealed that when the 1,000 kilograms (2,200 lb) of concentrated high-test peroxide and 500 kilograms (1,100 lb) of kerosene exploded, the internal torpedo tube cover and the external tube door were blown off, opening the torpedo room to the sea. An explosion in the bow section of the Russian nuclear submarine 'Kursk' on 12th of August, 2000, resulted in the tragic loss of the submarine and the lives of 118 crew. Workers fitted the hull of Giant 4 with large saddles shaped to fit Kursk's outer hull. [4], On 31 July 2012, divers representing the relatives of Kursk's crew and the Northern Fleet command placed an Orthodox cross on the floor of the Barents Sea at the site of the disaster. [61][62] Four months later, Nadezhda Tylik said that her husband had lied about the injection to the public to "save my nerves", and that he "did not ask for help". [32][68][105], Bodies recovered from the ninth compartment were relatively easy to identify. He also said there was no evidence that the torpedo had been damaged when it was loaded onto Kursk. [3], Salvage divers from Halliburton[86] first detached the bow from the rest of the vessel because it might have contained unexploded torpedo warheads and because it could break off and destabilise the lifting. [17][24] At 22:30, the Northern Fleet declared an emergency, and the exercise was stopped. [82] Another theory was that USS Memphis had fired a torpedo at Kursk. The sub was equipped with a special drain system that could rapidly drain hydrogen peroxide fuel from a torpedo into the sea. Officials misled and manipulated the public and news media, and refused help from other countries' ships nearby. [67] Popov and Motsak had championed the story that the accident had been caused by a collision with a NATO submarine. We feel bad, weakened by carbon dioxide ... Pressure is increasing in the compartment. They salvaged a high-pressure compressed air cylinder weighing about half a ton,[89] to learn more about the nature of the explosion. The wreck of the submarine was recovered in 2001 and returned to the Russian Navy submarine shipyards at Roslyakovo. The danger was that this chemical compound can become explosive if it comes in contact with organic compounds or a fire. [18]:35[76] Ryazantsev asserted that signatures on the records documenting that the sailors had been trained in handling and firing HTP torpedoes had been faked. Because the submarine's emergency rescue buoy had been intentionally disabled during an earlier mission, it took more than 16 hours to locate the sunken boat. The handwriting appears normal, indicating the sailors still had some light. In pitch-black darkness, some time after the explosions which sent the Kursk … Two minutes and fifteen seconds after the initial blast, the sub had reached the sea floor when the intense initial fire triggered the detonation of between five and seven torpedo warheads. This probably started the gash in the hull above the torpedo section. [107], Putin dismissed the Northern Fleet's submarine commander, Vice Admiral Oleg Burtsev,[4]:162 and in total removed 12 high-ranking officers in charge of the Northern Fleet. As they gradually worked their way inside the compartment and down two levels, Warrant Officer Sergei Shmygin found the remains of Captain-lieutenant Dmitry Kolesnikov. The Dutch recovery team reported that they thought the men in the least affected ninth compartment might have survived for two to three hours. [4]:152 The Russian Navy told reporters that a rescue was imminent. [68], It was known that the electrical connectors between the torpedoes and the internal tube door were unreliable and often required the torpedo crews to open and re-close the door to clean the connection before an electrical contact could be established. Thank you. [103][104], Salvage team members found a large number of potassium superoxide chemical cartridges, used to absorb carbon dioxide and chemically release oxygen to enable survival, in the ninth compartment. This contradicted earlier statements made by senior Russian officials that all of the submariners had died before the submarine hit the bottom. Twenty-four hours after the submarine's disappearance, as Russian naval officials made bleak calculations about the chances of the 118 men on board, Putin was filmed enjoying himself, shirtsleeves rolled up, hosting a barbecue at his holiday villa on the Black Sea. On June 29, The Government Commission into the Submarine Sinking Will Present a Report on the Examination and Its Results. Those who are guilty must be punished. [57] During the meeting with the crew's relatives, he loudly blamed the oligarchs, who owned most of the country's non-government media, for the poor state of Russia's military. [14] Some reports said that the buoy had repeatedly malfunctioned and had been welded in place. [48] They repeated the theory that Kursk collided with a NATO submarine shadowing the exercise. [51] The seismic waveforms of the second event, known by then to be from the explosion of several torpedo warheads, also generated a high-frequency bubble signature characteristic of an underwater explosion of approximately 3–7 tons of TNT. [103] Forensic examination of two of the reactor control room casualties found in compartment four showed extensive skeletal injuries which indicated that they had sustained an explosive force of over 50g's. The lies and incompetent cover-up attempts launched by both the navy and the government were resurrected from a pre-Glasnost era. An international rescue team assembled to save the sailors, but was unable to reach them in time. As the base was very small, news spread quickly. [85] The salvage operation was extremely dangerous because of the risk of radiation from the reactor. Your task is to collect secret information about the revolutionary Shkval supercavitating torpedoes. Teslenko's primary rescue ship was a 20-year-old former lumber carrier, Mikhail Rudnitsky, which had been converted to support submersible rescue operations. [3] Working from a database of personal identification details, including the crew members' features, dental x-rays, birth marks, and tattoos, the doctors examined the bodies as they were brought to the laboratory. [3] One sailor's body was found embedded in the ceiling of the second compartment. The sunken submarine Kursk has a "terrifying hole'' on its starboard side, a top Russian official said, as possible explosions wrecked the vessel and sent it plunging to the sea bottom in seconds. In addition it was likely that some of the men were seriously injured and escape would have been very difficult for them. They found that the first 18 m (59 ft) of the boat was a mass of twisted metal and debris. 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. An investigation revealed that because the torpedoes were not intended to carry warheads, the welds had not been inspected as carefully as welds on torpedoes carrying warheads. Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. [85] Giant 4 was held in position over the submarine by an eight-point mooring system from four twin-drum winches on the main deck. [citation needed] It lists the names of the crew members. Kursk was one of four Oscar-II class nuclear-powered multipurpose submarines sailing for the Northern Fleet. [55]:114, On 26 July 2002, almost two years later, the government commission and Russia's Prosecutor General, Vladimir Ustinov, announced that the hydrogen peroxide fuel in the dummy torpedo inside the fourth torpedo launcher set off the initial explosion that sank Kursk. The likely chain of events was something like this: A hydrogen peroxide leak started a fire, which in turn detonated the Type 65-76A’s 900-lb. Panarin’s family feared that right after his service in the armyhe would end up in Chechnya, Ossetia or Abkhazia – a likely prospect in those troubledtimes. [4][56] He was told that there was a strong possibility that a foreign vessel had caused the accident and that Russia should not accept help from foreign powers. The Russian navy produced video footage of the wreck that they claimed showed evidence that this, too, resulted from a collision. Researchers concluded Captain-Lieutenant Kolesnikov and two others had attempted to recharge the oxygen generation system when they accidentally dropped one of the chemical superoxide cartridges into the sea water slowly filling the compartment. Lacking information, families of the victims engaged in an angry and volatile meeting with newly elected President Vladimir Putin. Russian authorities later determined the vessel sank after a torpedo on board unexpectedly exploded. The two hulls were separated by a 1-to-2 m (3-to-7 ft) gap. [6], Finally recognising the hazard of the HTP-fuelled torpedoes, the Russian Navy ordered all of them to be removed from service. The Soviets saw American carriers as both delivery platforms capable of launching thermonuclear airstrikes against the motherland and as hunters of the USSR’s own nuclear ballistic missile fleet. [12], At 11:29:34 (07:29:50 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. How we test gear. The Kursk was completed in 1994 and assigned to the Russian Northern Fleet. [5] It consisted of 30 ships and three submarines. [4][73] They decided to destroy what was left of the bow where it lay[73] and blew up the remnants in September 2002.[88]. At 11:20 AM local time, an underwater explosion rocked the exercise area, followed two minutes later by an even larger explosion. As head of the defence industries, over the objections of some officers, he had promoted use of the liquid-fuelled torpedoes over safer, more-expensive silver-zinc battery-powered torpedoes. On August 12, 2000, the bow compartment on the Russian Kursk submarine exploded, killing most of the sub’s crew. [12], Despite the many lapses in procedures and equipment, Ustinov said no charges would be filed because the disaster was caused by a technical malfunction and blame could not be placed on specific individuals. However, It is Already Known That the Submarine Was Destroyed by The Detonation of a 650-Millimeter Torpedo on Board", "Feature Focus: Offshore Innovations: Raising the Kursk | Mechanical Engineering Magazine Select Articles | ASME DC", "How Scots played key role in raising the Kursk", "Ну а если случится такое – по отсекам пройдет ураган? Request permission to fire it,"[7] though it is unlikely that, as captain of the vessel, he would have needed to request permission under such circumstances. Browse 439 kursk submarine stock photos and images available, or search for russian submarine to find more great stock photos and pictures. [24], Two minutes and 14 seconds after the first explosion in the torpedo compartment,[13] the fire set off a second explosion of 5–7 combat-ready torpedo warheads. [26], Rescue divers did not attempt to tap on the hull to signal potential survivors acoustically. 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Despite a hastily organized rescue effort, including British and Norwegian rescue teams, the Russian government was unable to reach any of the survivors in time. When would the bodies of the submariners be brought home? SUMMARY: Over the weekend of August 12–13, 2000, while on a naval exercise inside the Arctic Circle, the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk sank to the bottom of the Barents Sea with all hands on board. [49]:23 Vice-premier Ilya Klebanov, chair of the government commission investigating the accident, had a vested interest in suggesting the disaster had been caused by a collision with a NATO vessel. Let's hope that at least someone will read this. He replaced him with Sergei Ivanov, who had previously been secretary of the Security Council of Russia. The Mikhail Rudnitsky left port at 00:30. The nuclear reactors shut down safely. They determined that the two shockwaves were a perfect match and consistent with a torpedo explosion.[7]. [16], The scheduled time period for Kursk to complete the practice torpedo firing expired at 13:30 without any contact from the sub. "Those who designed the torpedo couldn't foresee the possibility of its explosion." The strand jacks lifted the 26 hoisting cables and slowly raised Kursk until it was beneath Giant 4. He had also been in charge of the rescue operation and follow-up inquiry. Unleash the Log With These Wood Bench Builds. Ordnance teams removed the missiles from outside the hull. These shocks would have immediately incapacitated or killed the operators. Society » Real life stories. [26] Other theories included Chechen espionage, human error, sabotage,[26] and that Kursk was testing a new top-secret torpedo, Shkval (Squall), capable of speeds in excess of 200 knots (370 km/h; 230 mph). [4][71][72], HTP is normally stable until it comes in contact with a catalyst. Rescue operations were suspended while the repairs were made. The giant cable reels fed 26 huge hydraulic strand jacks, each mounted on a computer-controlled, pressurised pneumatic heave compensator powered by nitrogen gas that automatically adjusted for sea waves. In 2000, the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk suffered internal explosions and sank during manoeuvres in the Barents Sea. [26] Kursk was listing at a 25-degree angle and down 5–7 degrees by the bow. Britain's Blacknest seismic monitoring station, which studies seismic signals generated by underground nuclear explosions and earthquakes,[52] identified two distinct explosions. [96] Emergency lighting was normally powered by batteries located in the first compartment, but these had been destroyed in the explosion. "[80] In the end, no one was blamed for the disaster and no one was held responsible. Other reports said the sounds had been misinterpreted or were made up. [14], At 11:31:48,[13] two minutes and 14 seconds after the first, a second event, measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale, or 250 times larger than the first,[12] was registered on seismographs across northern Europe[15] and was detected as far away as Alaska. There were 24 men assigned to compartments six through nine towards the rear of the boat. [20]:88–92, There was considerable debate over how long the sailors in the ninth compartment had survived. "[57], In a speech to the Russian people the day after his meeting with the families, Putin continued his furious attack on the Russian media, accusing them of lying and discrediting the country. [87] The divers installed two large hydraulic suction anchors into the seabed and attached a high-strength tungsten carbide abrasive saw that was pulled back and forth over the bow between the anchors. Colin Firth stars in a new movie about the disaster called Kursk, which comes out this year. [21][22][23], At 17:00, an Ilyushin 38 aircraft was dispatched. The navy's callous approach to the families of the missing men was reminiscent of an earlier Soviet insensitivity to individual misery. They ordered the buoy to be disabled and it was still inoperative when the sub sank. And what is your own explanation of that particular accident. "[60] When she would not be quiet, a nurse in civilian apparel behind her forcibly injected her through her clothing with a sedative. The Kursk was completed in 1994 and assigned to the Russian Northern Fleet. Russian audiences were shocked when they later saw this footage, which showed the distraught mother of a sailor scolding naval officers before being forcibly sedated and removed from the meeting. [49]:22 Aryapov held a senior position in the sixth compartment. On August 12, 2000, the Russian nuclear-powered submarine K-141 Kursk vanished in the Barents Sea. In February 2002, Putin removed him from his position as Deputy Prime Minister and made him Minister of Industry, Science, and Technology. [77] Alternatively, there was also an escape trunk in the first compartment, but the explosion and fire rendered use of it impossible. Russian sub, the “Kursk,” sinks with 118 onboard. The article reported that some specialists in the Russian Navy opposed use of the HTP-fuelled torpedoes because they were volatile and dangerous. [68], The fuel in the torpedoes carried by Kursk was inexpensive and very powerful. The torpedo manufacturer challenged this hypothesis, insisting that its design would prevent the kind of event described. Anyone who remained alive in those compartments was killed by the second explosion. [13], The crew of the submarine Karelia detected the explosion but the captain assumed that it was part of the exercise. Giant 4 had to be completely modified to retrieve and carry the sub underneath. Most of the wreck was raised and analyzed. [17] The internal tube door was designed to be three times as strong as the external torpedo door, so that any explosion inside the tube would be directed out into the sea. "We've been giving sedatives to relatives since this began, and it is not such a big deal as you make it out to be in the West," said an officer who would not identify himself. [68] Salvage crews found the internal tube hatch cover embedded in the bulkhead separating the first and second compartments, 12 metres (39 ft) from the tube. [20]:90–92 Using the escape trunk was risky. [70] Kursk's crew had no prior experience with and had not been trained in handling or firing HTP-powered torpedoes. [14][26], On Sunday 20 August, the Norwegians lowered a ROV to the submarine. 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