The Surcouf Conspiracy: A Penetrating Analysis of the Worst Submarine Disaster in History

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The submarine's emergency rescue buoy had been intentionally disabled during an earlier mission and it took more than 16 hours to locate the submarine, which rested on the ocean floor at a depth of 108m (354ft). Crew aboard Mikhail Rudnitsky tried to contact Kursk and briefly thought they heard an acoustic SOS signal, but this was determined to be of biological origin. Some relatives said they learned of the disaster only from the public media [57] :108 or from conflicting rumours circulating at the navy base.

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Why [was] this sub, which has all these different problems… permitted to go down and visit [the Titanic]? It was unable to locate the submarine, because it had been given an incorrect heading by personnel aboard Pyotr Velikiy. In addition to the crew in those compartments, five officers from 7th SSGN Division Headquarters and two design engineers were on board to observe the performance of a new battery in the USET-80 torpedo, set to be launched second.Giant 4 was held in position over the submarine by an eight-point mooring system from four twin-drum winches on the main deck. As head of the defence industries, over the objections of some officers, he had promoted use of the liquid-fueled torpedoes over safer, more-expensive silver-zinc battery-powered torpedoes.

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Maintenance records revealed that the 65-76 "Kit" practice torpedo carried by Kursk came from a batch of 10 manufactured in 1990, six of which were rejected due to faulty welding. The Russian government convened a commission, chaired by Vice-Premier Ilya Klebanov, on 14 August, two days after Kursk sank. In a statement, OceanGate Expeditions said: “We are exploring and mobilising all options to bring the crew back safely. Russian sources said that when the exercise was cancelled due to the accident, these vessels put in at European ports. Yet even if one of its numbers had read “NO POPE,” there weren’t any Catholic workers at Harland and Wolff for it to upset.

Ryazantsev believed that due to their inexperience and lack of training, compounded by incomplete inspections and oversight, and because Kursk 's crew followed faulty instructions when loading the practice torpedo, they set off a chain of events that led to the explosion.