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Originally posted by BGCarrera32
What I would really like to see is hull pictures of the nuclear sub the Kursk which sank in the Barents Sea on excercise in 2001.
A deep sea diver from Haliburton was able to get on board during the retrieval excercise, the only American ever to board a Russian sub (that we know of anyway).
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About a year ago I spent the better part of a day browsing the net and found a site that had some really frightening pictures of the Kursk in drydock - full frontal. The boat has since been scrapped. The site was located somewhere in Russia and obviously the text was not English. I had a feeling that I stumbled upon something that was not supposed to be freely available. They used the same method to saw off the damaged nose of the sub before raising it. I believe the nose section is still on the ocean bottom. Needless to say the outer skin of the sub was substantially thicker than the ship on this thread!