The K-141 Kursk submarine was a powerful vessel. If its 155-metre hull were to be placed vertically at the spot where it sank, it would have stuck out above the water's surface like a 14-storey ...

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What You Need to Know: In August 2000, the Russian submarine Kursk suffered two massive explosions during a naval exercise in the Barents Sea, sinking with 118 crew aboard. Caused by a hydrogen ...

A rescue operation is launched in August 2000 to try to save more than 100 sailors on board a Russian submarine grounded at the bottom of the Barents Sea. The Kursk nuclear submarine was believed ...

A Russian diver entered the Kursk nuclear submarine for the first time Wednesday but failed to find any of the 118 sailors who died when the vessel sank in August, a top navy commander said.

In the absence of a large-scale conflict for the submarine to display its qualities, the Kursk tragedy remains one of the main events for which the Oscar II class is known. In August 2000 ...

Ten Russian children whose lives were shattered by the Kursk submarine disaster were today welcomed to Britain at the start of a week-long holiday. Each child lost their father when the stricken ...

In 2000, I reported on the sinking of the Kursk submarine in the icy waters of the Barents Sea. One hundred and eighteen submariners were killed. Vladimir Putin had been president for less than ...

A growing consensus among Asia analysts in Washington posits that China is readying for a war with the U.S. over Taiwan by 2027.

It last happened in 2000, when the Russian submarine the Kursk sank in the Barents Sea, killing all 118 crew on board. How long can a crew survive submerged? The number of days that a crew can ...

In August 2000, the Russian nuclear-powered submarine Kursk sank to the floor of Barents Sea after two explosions in its bow, killing all 118 men aboard. That accident, soon after President ...