Location of K-141 Kursk submarine wreck

Russia / Murmansk / Tumannyy /
 disaster site, historical layer / disappeared object
Kursk was a Russian Oscar nuclear cruise missile submarine.

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.

Kursk sank when a leak of hydrogen peroxide in the forward torpedo room led to the detonation of a torpedo warhead, which in turn triggered the explosion of half a dozen other warheads about two minutes later. All hands were lost.

Most of the submarine's hull, except the bow, was raised from the ocean floor.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_submarine_K-141_Kursk
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Coordinates:   69°39'59"N   37°34'57"E

Comments

  • The raised part of the sub was delivered to a dry dock, bodies recovered, and all safe parts were salvaged as scrap. The two reactors were taken back out to sea and dumped. As stated in a TV show about the operation.
  • According to one version, the nuclear submarine "Kursk" was the torpedoing of the American submarine "Toledo" and "Memphis". Talk about it many authoritative people.
  • We will never know what happened with submarine. This is dark and sad story... RIP
  • But we do know what happened. The boat blew up and sank because a dummy torpedo had a faulty weld in it, which caused the torpedo to explode in its tube, which, in turn, caused other torpedoes to explode, which, in turn, blew a hole through one end of the boat/submarine, causing the sub to sink.