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Fire system caused 20 sub deaths


year 2008 Top ^

Nov.9
  Russian Far East: An accident that killed 20 people on a new nuclear submarine was caused by a malfunctioning fire safety system that spewed out chemicals

Nov.8
  Russian Far East: At least 20 people have died in an incident involving the failure of a fire extinguishing system on a nuclear submarine. There were 208 people on board.    An accident was caused by a malfunctioning ...
Jan.5 Stranded boat crew finally rescued Map of Kamchatka Russia  Russian Far East: 11 fishing boat crew had been stranded since October off the Kamchatka Peninsula were sheltering nearly 3 months at an abandoned military base

year 2007 Top ^

Nov.12 Death toll rises in oil disaster
Map of Kerch Strait Russia  Russia: Russia and Ukraine launched a rescue and cleanup operation in the Black Sea after fatal storms sank 5 ships, including an oil tanker. 20 sailors missing Nov.11 Five ships sink in storms; 23 missing Map of Kerch Strait Russia
  Russia: At least 2 sailors died and 23 were missing when 5 ships sank in storms in the Black Sea and the Azov Sea
 The strong winds and high surf caused the Volgoneft-139 to split, spilling up 560,000 (1,000 tons) gallons of fuel oil. The weather was hampering efforts to control the spill in the Kerch Strait that separates the Black Sea from the Sea of Azov
Russian oil tanker breaks in two Map of Kerch Strait Russia
  A tanker split in two during a fierce storm, spilling some 560,000 gallons of fuel into a strait leading to the Black Sea.    The storm sank t...


year 2005 Top ^

Aug.12   Russia marks Kursk five years on
  Remembrance services are being held to mark 5 years since the loss of the submarine Aug.5   Russians race to rescue sailors  Russian Far East: The U.S. Navy is sending a crew to Russia's Pacific Coast to rescue 7 Russian sailors trapped in a mini-submarine

year 2003 Top ^

Aug.29   Nuclear submarine sinks
   Arctic: A subtopics/russia-d-n.html">Russian sub K-159 with at least 10 crew on board has sunk in the Barents Sea. One of the crew had been rescued Jan.8 Russian freeze traps ships  St. Petersburg: Severe winter weather has trapped 40 ships in the icy Gulf of Finland, near St Petersburg

year 2002 Top ^

Oct.22 Ship capsizes in Caspian Sea  Azerbaijan: The Mercury II was sailing from Kazakhstan to the Azeri capital, Baku, with 51 people on board Jul.26   Torpedo fuel to blame for Kursk loss  Russia: Leaky torpedo fuel caused the explosions. The exploding blank torpedo caused the other blasts

year 2001 Top ^

Nov.16   Kursk remains to be scrapped  Russia: Submarine's reactor to be cut out and the hulk will be scrapped Nov.5   Explosives halt Kursk lifting  Russia: Investigators saw undetonated explosives around submarine forward section Oct.25 Kursk gives up its dead  Russia: Investigators have recovered 3 bodies after entering the nuclear submarine for the first time Oct.23 Kursk investigators examine sub  Russia: Prosecutor General has led a team of investigators onto the deck. Remains of more than 100 men to recover Oct.7   Raising of the Kursk begins  Russia: Dutch salvage company Mammoet started the operation to raise the wreck of the sunken Russian sub Sep.13 Kursk bow sawn off  Russia: Attempt to lift Russian nuclear submarine to be scheduled for 25 September Aug.25 Race against time to raise Kursk  Russia: Unusual stormy weather is causing delays Jul.22 Holes cut in to Kursk hull  Russia: Diving teams had been working on the wreck in 6-hour shifts around-the-clock Jul.21 Divers begin Kursk recovery  Russia: The first group of divers has descended to the bottom of the Barents Sea in a diving bell
Jan.28 Ship sinks: 22 dead  Ukraine: Ship travelled from Istanbul to a Crimean port. 6 people rescued, including the captain, but 23 were missing

year 2000 Top ^

Aug.12 Kursk submarine went down
   Arctic: All 118 crew members on board the nuclear submarine perished when the Kursk exploded and sank




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