Over a year later, the sub of death comes up

Bard

Kursk Raised From Seabed

Russia's ill-fated Kursk nuclear submarine has been successfully raised from the arctic seabed and docked to a salvage barge.

After a marathon salvage operation, the Kursk was attached to the barge about 3pm UK time.

The barge is now heading with the Kursk towards dry dock in the town of Roslyakovo, outside the northern port city of Murmansk. The journey is expected to take two days.

The 18,000-tonne Kursk had been sitting in mud on the Barents seabed for more than a year after a series of as-yet unexplained explosions resulted in the death of all 118 crew on board.

The Interfax news agency quoted Larissa van Seumeren, spokeswoman for Dutch salvage contractors Mommoet, as confirming the Kursk had been safely attached to the Giant-4 barge.

taken from Sky News: http://www.sky.com/skynews/storytemplate/storytoppic/0,,30000-1031674,00.html

Manach

Under normal circumstances, one w'd appluad such a feat of engineering.
Do the Russias still think that it was a Western sub that sunk the Kursk & any info on radiation levels?

Bard

Originally posted by Manach

Do the Russias still think that it was a Western sub that sunk the Kursk & any info on radiation levels?

Um... I'm not entirely sure...

hang on there while I get me ould mate Vlad Putin on the blower and find out...

:rolleyes:

Manach

While you're at it could explain how Yelsein's liver still functioned, the public deserve an explanation

Kix

There was a good program on it a while back. It came to the very plausible and well supported conclusion that a torpedo malfunctioned on board the Kursk and caused a massive explosion in the forward torpedo room.

K

Paleface

Yeah I saw that . It was very interesting. Aparrently some fluid used inside the torpedo leaked out and reacted with the metal casing, causing an explosion that triggered the demise of the sub. I think its the most plausible answer so far. I sincerely doubt that two subs collided now that the cold war is over.