The Kursk Tragedy: Russia’s Worst Submarine Disaster and Its Lingering ... It reportedly cost around $65 million to recover the wreck, which required assistance from the Dutch marine salvage ...

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 peroxide-fueled torpedo ...

The international team bidding to raise the sunken Russian nuclear submarine, the Kursk, were today making final preparations ahead of their departure for the wreck site in the Barents Sea.

Salvage divers resumed Saturday the operation to recover bodies from the wreck of the Kursk nuclear submarine despite poor weather on the surface of the Barents Sea, Northern Fleet command 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 ...

Getty Images The wreck of the Kursk submarine, which sank after an explosion in 2000 with the loss of 118 men Nineteen years on, some things haven't changed. Vladimir Putin is still president and ...

Ten Russian children whose lives were shattered by the Kursk submarine disaster were today ... with work in the Barents Sea to raise the wreck of the stricken nuclear sub. A team of divers ...

Kursk’s history of tragedy continued after World War II. In 1993, Russia christened its soon-to-be commissioned Oscar II-class nuclear-powered submarine “Kursk” in commemoration of the 50th ...

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 ...

In 2000, the Kursk, a Russian navy sub ... southern Atlantic with 44 crew on board. Its wreck was located a year later and officials said the submarine had imploded.