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The inimitable Kokogiak is a mutual Friend Of Torrez, whom I recently had the chance to meet in person when another mutual friend and longtime blog-buddy adampsyche was in town.
Kokogiak shared some photos of the doomed Russian sub Kursk with us the other day, and I thought I would share them with you, along with a couple of links I dredged up reading up on that disaster. The picture on the left is the Kursk setting out to sea from the Soviet sub base in the Baltic Sea. The picture on the right is what was left of the interior of the sub after the explosion that took it to the bottom of the ocean, along with its entire crew.
At the time of the accident, there was much speculation as to the actual cause. The Russian government offered a number of weak explanations: "minor technical difficulties", a "depth charge", and so on. The Western media speculated that the nuclear reactor had detonated. Eventually, as the Wikipedia article lists, there were a number of theories proffered ranging from a suicide bomber among the crew to mutiny. Eventually, though, the final report concluded that a torpedo misfire was the most likely cause. When one looks at the cut-away of the wreck, it's not hard to make a similar conclusion.
Even now, though, conspiracy theorists remain convinced of other, more sinister events. The leading conspiracy idea is that the Kursk collided with an American or a British sub, since subs from both navies were in proximity to observe the Russian naval wargame the Kursk was participating in. The linked conspiracy site goes to great ends to detail this idea, which actually had some credence initially, but over the course of time since the accident, very little of this theory holds water (pardon the pun).
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