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The tragedy that killed the Titan submersible crew in 2023 year may have been foreshadowed by a separate event years before its fatal dive. The US Coast Guard has released a new image of the vehicle, showing how the dome fell off after a dive in 2021. One of the private passengers on board during that dive described last week how several bolts holding the dome 'shot off like bullets' after the sub's nose hit the deck. The release of the new image adds to a catalogue of issues reported with the Titan in the years up to an implosion...

Time is running out for delivery of 5,000 tons of containers and modules for the Vostok station to Antarctica. Sevmporput had an estimated arrival at Prydz Bay on the eastern shores of the continent on November 20. However, since mid-October the giant nuclear-powered container carrier has sailed zigzag outside the Angolan coast in the South-Atlantic with a broken propeller. Rosatomflot, the operator of Russia’s state-owned fleet of civilian nuclear-powered vessels, chose to keep silent about the trouble and has not answered any questions on the issue from The Barents Observer. Social media sites, however, had a lively debate about the...