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

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There had been calls not to disturb the 'graveyard' of those who died but the government said the Kursk must be raised to avoid any potential danger to the environment from its nuclear reactors. While the submarine was still being lifted, the barge pulled up its eight anchors and began drifting slowly to choose the optimum position to minimise roll. He said: "The lifting has gone without a hitch. The divers have inspected the submarine and found no flaws in the salvage equipment." The Russian government convened a commission, chaired by Vice-Premier Ilya Klebanov, on 14 August, two days after Kursk sank. [11] Nearly half of the commission members were officials with a stake in the outcome of the investigation. Independent investigators were not invited to take part, giving the appearance that the commission's findings might not be impartial. [20] :32 Weather delays efforts [ edit ]

Notwithstanding the navy's oft-stated position that a collision with a foreign vessel had triggered the event, [26] a report issued by the government attributed the disaster to a torpedo explosion caused when high-test peroxide (HTP), a form of highly concentrated hydrogen peroxide, leaked from a faulty weld in the torpedo's casing. [5] [12] [27] The report found that the initial explosion destroyed the torpedo room compartment and killed everyone in the first compartment. [28] [29] The blast entered the second and perhaps the third and fourth compartments through an air conditioning vent. All of the 36 men in the command post located in the second compartment were immediately incapacitated by the blast wave and possibly killed. [30] The first explosion caused a fire that raised the temperature of the compartment to more than 2,700°C (4,890°F). [31] The heat caused the warheads of between five and seven additional torpedoes to detonate, creating an explosion equivalent to 2–3 tons of TNT [32] that measured 4.2 on the Richter magnitude scale on seismographs across Europe [33] and was detected as far away as Alaska. [34] Alternative explanation [ edit ] Naval commanders assured Putin that they could handle a rescue attempt without accepting the offers of foreign assistance that came in from Britain, Norway, the United States, and others. Putin only accepted such offers five days after the disaster. Twenty-four men were assigned to compartments six through nine towards the rear of the boat. [97] Of that number, 23 survived the two blasts and gathered in the small ninth compartment, which had an escape hatch. [11] Captain-lieutenant Dmitri Kolesnikov, head of the turbine unit in the seventh department, and one of three surviving officers of that rank, apparently took charge. [98] Emergency lighting was normally powered by batteries located in the first compartment which had been destroyed in the explosion, but the ninth compartment contained a number of independent emergency lights which apparently worked. Dikkenberg, John (19 October 2001). "Raising the Kursk". Sydney Morning Herald. Newspaper Source Plus. 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).

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The story of the Kursk is not finished. We have only raised the very first questions and conclusions. The main conclusion is that the government does not respect any of us -- and so it is lying. And the main thing is that the government treats us this way only because we allow it to." More than a decade has passed since the Kursk disaster took place. People worldwide might have forgotten the submarine Kursk, but for the parents and other loved ones aboard the submarine, it would be a date that could never be overlooked. The Kursk submarine and its crew might have gone forever, but the thought of whether the disaster could have been prevented will always linger on. Frequently Asked Questions 1. How long did Kursk crew survive? Ryazantsev, Valery. "The death of the "Kursk" " (in Russian). Archived from the original on 20 November 2011 . Retrieved 12 February 2014.

United States Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen responded to Russian accusations of a collision with a submarine at a press conference in Tokyo on 22 September 2000. [49] The lies began with the sinking of the Kursk," Kuznetsov says. "When the Kursk sank, the government began interfering with the legal and law-enforcement systems. The government began gathering all the mass media under its control. The entire process of undermining democracy in Russia, in many regards, began with this." What should the commander of the ship and the leaders of the exercises have done?" Kuznetsov says. "They should have identified the explosion and determined where it came from and what caused it. They did not do this." At this point a completely uncontrolled reaction with the metal components in that part of the torpedo occurred, bursting the whole casing open like a balloon,' said Stradling. Larissa van Seumeren, a spokesman for the consortium, said the submarine was less deeply embedded in the seabed than believed. "We started to pull and there was almost no suction," she said. "It was lifted up easily."Putin removed a total of 13 senior officers, including Northern Fleet submarine commander Vice Admiral Oleg Burtsov, but all of them were soon given prestigious positions in government or state-controlled businesses. When Ustinov closed the criminal case without filing charges, [ citation needed] family members were angry. Retired Russian Navy Captain Vladimir Mityayev, who lost a son on Kursk, said "To me, this is a clear case of negligence." [83] In the end, no one was blamed for the disaster and no one was held responsible. [20] :34 Alternative explanations [ edit ] The importance and the need to understand the Kursk submarine disaster is not just because of the mishap that occurred but also because of the very nature of the naval vessel and the theories that followed its sinking in the Barents Sea on the 12 th August 2000, 11.28 am as per the local Russian time. See through the first person perspective the fascinating world of 2000’s Moscow, Vidyayevo and the extremely detailed Oscar II-class submarine. It was revealing that the US Coast Guard yesterday declined to offer even the outline of a technical solution.

Two minutes and 14 seconds after the first explosion in the torpedo compartment, [15] the fire set off a second explosion of five to seven combat-ready torpedo warheads. Acoustic data from Pyotr Velikiy were later analysed and found to indicate an explosion of about seven torpedo warheads in rapid succession. [5] The Type 65 "Kit" torpedo carries a large 450kg (990lb) warhead. [74] As a result of the disaster, Russia began participating in NATO search-and-rescue exercises in 2011, the first time any Russian submarine had taken part in a NATO-led exercise. [112] The Russian Navy also increased the number of deep-sea divers trained each year from 18–20 to 40–45. [113] Awards to those killed [ edit ] At 11:31:48, [15] 2 minutes and 14 seconds after the first, a second event, measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale, or 250 times larger than the first, [14] was registered on seismographs across northern Europe [17] and was detected as far away as Alaska. [9] The second explosion was equivalent to 2–3 tons of TNT. [5] 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 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] On 26 July 2002, almost two years later, the government commission and Russian 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. [13] Secret report [ edit ]