"We are now working around the clock, starting from 4 o' clock this morning. Those who are guilty must be punished. [15][22] At 22:30, the Northern Fleet declared an emergency, and the exercise was stopped. At 18:30, at a depth of 100 m (300 ft) and at a speed of 2 knots (3.7 km/h; 2.3 mph), the AS-34 reported colliding with an object, and through a porthole the crew saw the Kursk's propeller and stern stabiliser. Eventually, the commission concluded that poor oversight, budget cuts, and incomplete maintenance inspections contributed to the explosion. Print this … EN NL AR DE ES PT. Simons, Greg (2012): Communicating Tragedy and Values Through the Mass Media During Crises: The Lessons of Submarine Accidents in Russia in Porfiriev, Boris & Simons, Greg (editors), Crises in Russia: Contemporary Management Policy and Practice from a Historical Perspective, Farnham, Ashgate, pp. The 7th Division, 1st Submarine Flotilla never inspected the Kursk's crew's qualifications and readiness to fire HTP torpedoes. Share on Twitter. The crew of the submarine Karelia detected the explosion but the captain assumed that it was part of the exercise. She quickly lost the ability to speak and was carried out. [16]:34, While the official government commission blamed the explosion on a faulty weld in the practice torpedo, Vice-Admiral Valery Ryazantsev cited inadequate training, poor maintenance, and incomplete inspections that caused the crew to mishandle the weapon. When Putin dismissed them, he made a point of repudiating the collision theory. [22], Two minutes and 14 seconds after the first explosion in the torpedo compartment,[11] the fire set off a second explosion of 5–7 combat-ready torpedo warheads. "[19] Other memorials were built in Moscow,[111] Sevastopol, Nizhny Novgorod, and Severomorsk. Ship`s deck house3. Kolesnikov. [56], German television channel RTL provided the Russian national daily newspaper Kommersant with an unedited transcript. [10], 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. She harangued Putin and Deputy Prime Minister Klebanov, accusing them of lying to the family members. Navy officials had previously said that it might be necessary to cut the missiles out of the Kursk's hull along with the silos if there was any damage. Also, water was slowly seeping into the ninth compartment, increasing the atmospheric pressure and thus the risk of decompression sickness and death when they ascended to the surface. Hours earlier the hull of the Kursk had finally been drained of sea water in the dry dock at Roslyakovo. "[78] In the end, no one was blamed for the disaster and no one was held responsible. [5] Some relatives said they learned of the disaster only from the public media[53]:108 or from conflicting rumours circulating at the navy base. [11] The seismic event, triangulated at 69°36′N 37°34′E / 69.600°N 37.567°E / 69.600; 37.567, showed that the boat had moved about 400 m (1,300 ft) from the site of the initial explosion. Aboard Pyotr Velikiy, the target of the practice launch, the crew detected a hydro-acoustic signal characteristic of an underwater explosion and felt their hull shudder. Investigators finally began the task of removing bodies from the wreck of the raised Russian submarine Kursk in dry dock yesterday. Navy officials said that they would be able to remove the weapons without cutting the hull. [55] He scornfully derided their ownership of property abroad. Over four days, the Russian Navy repeatedly failed in its attempts to attach four different diving bells and submersibles to the escape hatch of the submarine. Letters found on the bodies of 12 of the submariners who were recovered last year showed that 23 out of the 118 crew had scrambled to the ninth section after two mysterious explosions sank the submarine. [53]:108[57], The Russian state channel RTR was the only media granted access. The family members knew from media reports that foreign assistance had been offered on Monday. [15] At 09:00 Mikhail Rudnitsky arrived at the location. But this fire was separate from that caused by the exploding torpedo. [47]:23[5][9], The government's final report found that the officers who had issued the order approving use of the HTP torpedoes did not have the authority to issue that order. [47]:22 Aryapov held a senior position in the sixth compartment. The Kursk submarine was a big, burly piece of Russian engineering. [86], After the bow was cut free, the salvage crews raised several smaller pieces of wreckage. The whole operation will be completed in the following five stages: • preparatory phase • sawing compartment #1 • lifting • towing • docking [5][6], At 08:51 local time, Kursk requested permission to conduct a torpedo training launch and received the response "Dobro" ("Good"). Deep-sea divers entered the hull of the sunken nuclear submarine Kursk today and found the bodies of three of the 118 victims of the disaster, a Russian navy official said. The dummy torpedo was ten years old and some of its parts had exceeded their service life. [2]:160, Putin lashed back at the press, who had been severely critical of his personal response and the entire government's handling of a national tragedy. Letters found on the bodies of 12 of the submariners who were recovered last … They stated that the submarine had "descended to the ocean floor", that they had established contact with the crew and were pumping air and power to the boat, and that "everyone on board is alive. The handwriting appears normal, indicating the sailors still had some light. Those recovered from the third, fourth, and fifth compartments were badly damaged by the explosion. [15] Between fifteen and twenty-two vessels of the Northern Fleet, including about 3,000 sailors, began searching for the submarine. [2]:143–145, In any event, the Russian rescue teams were poorly equipped and badly organised, while foreign teams and equipment were far away and not given permission to assist. is going to carry out the recovery of the submarine. Raising Sunken Ships", "The Kursk Mystery Has Been Solved. [18]:88–92, There was considerable debate over how long the sailors in the ninth compartment had survived. 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.[91]. [19], On Sunday, after Popov already knew that Kursk was missing and presumed sunk, he briefed reporters on the progress of the naval exercise. [68] He stated that the warhead fuses on combat torpedoes 1, 3, 5, and 6 were set off when the first compartment collapsed after striking the sea bottom. They're lying. [4], Kursk had recently won a citation for its excellent performance and been recognised as having the best submarine crew in the Northern Fleet. [5] HMS Sidon sank in 1955, killing 13 sailors, when an experimental torpedo containing HTP exploded as it was being loaded. The sailors had every reason to believe that rescue would arrive quickly. Once in the dry dock, the pontoons were pumped full of more air, lifting Giant 4 and allowing crews to remove the lifting cables and detach Kursk. [81] 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. [3] The government refused to release a list of the missing sailors even to the families of those aboard; a Pravda reporter paid an officer 18,000 rubles to get the list. They determined that the two shockwaves were a perfect match and consistent with a torpedo explosion.[5]. Late on Saturday night, nine hours after the boat sank, Northern Fleet commander Admiral Popov ordered the first search for the submarine. She said, "I am sure that the commanders of the Northern Fleet knew that the torpedoes were not in order. One of the rescue capsules was damaged by the storm. After Giant 4 was floated out of the drydock, water was drained from the drydock, exposing the Kursk's hull. They ordered the buoy to be disabled and it was still inoperative when the sub sank. [15] On Thursday the Russian Priz 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. But the ninth compartment contained a number of independent emergency lights, which apparently worked. Today, the world finally heard Captain Kolesnikov's message after Russian divers recovered his remains from the husk of the submarine, and the note was found stuffed in his pocket. He also said there was no evidence that the torpedo had been damaged when it was loaded onto Kursk. [54] The President's response appeared callous and the government's actions looked incompetent. It was one of the few submarines authorised to carry a combat load at all times. 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. 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October 26, 2009 07:02 PM Share on Facebook. "[59] Navy officials in Vidyayevo later confirmed to The Times and to The St. Petersburg Times that Tylik was given a sedative. Although it was an exercise, the Kursk loaded a full complement of combat weapons. 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 Kursk nuclear submarine was successfully raised from the Barents sea floor today, more than a year after it became a tomb for its 118 crew. This led investigators to conclude that it was likely that the internal door was not fully closed when the explosion occurred. It's dark here to write, but I'll try by feel. It was 10.7 m (35 ft) long and weighed 5 t (4.9 long tons; 5.5 short tons). [47]:22 There had been 11 collisions between submarines in the Barents Sea since 1967. Later in the evening, and after repeated attempts to contact Kursk had failed, a search and rescue operation was launched. RUSSIA. The sailors were in a compartment that was initially at surface atmosphere pressure, so they did not risk decompression sickness ('the bends') if they used the rescue hoods to ascend to the surface. [18] Tylik said that her son had told her six days before the disaster that the submarine had "'death onboard', but he did not explain what he meant." 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. The next phase is removal of the soil located around the section where the Kursk … Who are you going to punish for their deaths, and how? [2][7] After considerable delay, the submarine was set to fire two dummy torpedoes at the Kirov-class battlecruiser Pyotr Velikiy. [26] Vice-premier Ilya Klebanov said the submarine might have hit an old World War II mine. Russian navy officers feared that the buoy might accidentally deploy, revealing the submarine's position to the U.S. fleet. [10], The government report confirmed that Kursk had been sunk by a torpedo explosion caused when high-test peroxide (HTP), a form of highly concentrated hydrogen peroxide, leaked from cracks in the torpedo's casing. Even then, the government tried to prohibit reporters from contacting family members. [12], At 11:31:48,[11] 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,[10] was registered on seismographs across northern Europe[13] and was detected as far away as Alaska. On August 12, 2000, a devastating explosion sank the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk in the Barents Sea. Ryazantsev believed that due to their inexperience and lack of training, compounded by incomplete inspections and oversight, and because Kursk's crew followed faulty instructions when loading the practice torpedo, they set off a chain of events that led to the explosion. When will we get them back, dead or alive? [18] Teslenko notified the ship's captain to be ready to depart on one hour's notice. Journalist Andrey Kolesnikov, who had been present at Putin's meeting with the families, described his experience in a 2015 documentary titled President. Kursk recovery operation. 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. [18]:72 The Russian Navy had previously operated two India-class submarines, each of which carried a pair of Poseidon class DSRVs that could reach a depth of 693 m (2,270 ft), but due to a lack of funds, the vessels had been held since 1994 in a St. Petersburg yard for pending repairs. Recovery work inside the “Kursk” wound up on account of high risks involved All rescue work inside the sunken “Kursk” submarine has been wound up today because of bad weather and perils posed by high piles of broken equipment in its fourth section. [24] 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. I never felt anything like it anywhere in my entire life ... All the questions were aimed at this single man ...[citation needed], In response to the avalanche of criticism, Minister of Defence Sergeyev and senior commanders of the Navy and the Northern Fleet offered Putin their resignations, but he refused to accept them. The team manufactured 26 giant cable reels to hold the more than 200 kilometres (120 mi) of cable to be used to raise the boat. [32], 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. Initially the other ships in the exercise, all of which had detected an explosion, did not report it. When analysts compared the second event with the first, they concluded that the first event was also the explosion of a torpedo. [3], President Putin had been advised by the military from the start of the disaster that they had the situation under control and that he did not need to intervene. Nearby ships registered the explosion but did not know what to make of it. 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. [14], The scheduled time period for Kursk to complete the practice torpedo firing expired at 13:30 without any contact from the sub. Teslenko's primary rescue ship was a 20-year-old former lumber carrier, Mikhail Rudnitsky, which had been converted to support submersible rescue operations. They also raised a part of the cylindrical section of the hard frame and part of the left forward spherical partition, to determine the intensity and temperature of the fire in the forward compartment. [80] Another theory was that USS Memphis had fired a torpedo at Kursk. Roslyakovo dry dock2. [10] In fact, investigators learned that Kursk had been deployed to the Mediterranean during the summer of 1999 to monitor the U.S. fleet responding to the Kosovo War. On Aug. 12, 2000, the Russian submarine Kursk sank in the Barents Sea after being rocked by two explosions. [106][107], On 1 December 2001, Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov presented a preliminary report to Putin. He had also been in charge of the rescue operation and follow-up inquiry. The navy's callous approach to the families of the missing men was reminiscent of an earlier Soviet insensitivity to individual misery. "They'd better sell their villas on the Mediterranean coast of France or Spain. 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. ABSTRACT The Russian Federation nuclear powered submarine Kursk sank in August 2000 with the loss of all 118 lives on board. Instead, the article was replaced with another that speculated the submarine had collided with an "unidentified object". [45], 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. [5], On 5 November, a representative of the Northern Fleet General Staff told the Russian NTV television station that the sinking was caused by a collision. This has not been easy, given the proposed means of recovering the Kursk. But the Arctic water was extremely cold and they could not survive long in the water. It was named after the Russian city Kursk, around which the largest tank battle in military history, the Battle of Kursk, took place in 1943. [19][20][21], At 17:00, an Ilyushin 38 aircraft was dispatched. The Kursk sank in the Barents Sea 85 miles north-east of Murmansk in August last year. Thank you. His seeming indifference outraged the families of the Kursk sailors and many other Russians.
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