[jmacusa]

I was just watching a video about the Kursk sub disaster. The Russians always seem hell bent on doing the very opposite when it comes to technology and safety standards and procedures common in the West. Apparently they used hydrogen peroxide as a propellant in their torpedoes which can be unstable and problematic as a fuel. The consensus about the disaster is that somehow an electrical spark or ground in the torpedo tube caused the initial explosion. A build up of toxic gases and other leaking fuel caused a more massive secondary explosion which doomed the crew. I remember that story. Those poor Russian kids were trapped in a rear compartment for days, slowly suffocating to death. In the Chernobyl nuke accident the Russians were using a graphite reactor, something considered too unstable and dangerous for use in the West. Stupid Russians ended up irradiating half the planet.

[Captain7seas]

“I was just watching a video about the Kursk sub disaster...”

The Kursk went down in relatively shallow water (around 300’) by commercial diving standards.

The Russians had to seek professional diving assistance from a Norwegian diving company, Seaway who had divers in saturation that were working in the North Sea aboard one of Seaway’s vessels.