Once hailed as unsinkable, the Kursk became a steel tomb for 118 sailors. This is the story of a nuclear submarine, a deadly explosion, and a failed rescue. America's news TV channel for the ...

Russia faced another submarine disaster when the K-152 Nerpa suffered a deadly malfunction during sea trials in the Pacific, ...

Divers who venture inside the wreckage must maneuver ... Most experts say any impact big enough to sink the Kursk, an enormous submarine with a rubberized hull designed to withstand even torpedo ...

The only certainty is that people inside are alive and sending ... battered pride of Russia's armed forces. The Kursk, an Oscar II class attack submarine, is the newest in Russia's submarine ...

One such similarly high profile accident is the sinking of the Kursk, a Russian nuclear submarine that exploded ... pinned the sinking on an explosion inside of one of the torpedo bays.

Three months into Vladimir Putin’s new presidency, a blast in the Barents Sea ripped open and sank Russia’s prized nuclear submarine Kursk - in an explosion so powerful that its impact was ...

His job was to go down 350 feet of frigid water to cut holes in the hull of the submarine. The Russian divers entered through these holes to search for bodies inside the wreck. Degener says he got ...

A Russian navy official admits that the Kursk is on the seabed. It is claimed radio contact was made with submarine. This is later denied ... they open the airlock's inner hatch. The cabin inside is ...

It was only three months into his new presidency on August 12 2000 that the nation's prized nuke-equipped sub, Kursk ... submarine's nose and as a result of the ensuing fire the missile heads ...

Russian officials have focused on the possibility that a torpedo misfired and exploded inside or near the Kursk during the exercise, but some say they believe it was struck by a foreign submarine ...