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Discover how the Kursk submarine disaster transformed from a routine torpedo exercise into Russia's deadliest submarine catastrophe on August 12, 2000, when a faulty weld in a decade-old practice torpedo leaked hydrogen peroxide onto bronze-lined launch tubes, triggering a chemical explosion at 11:28 AM that killed seven crew instantly and—135 seconds later—detonated seven live warheads in a blast registering 4.2 on the Richter scale across Europe, collapsing three compartments and trapping 23 survivors in compartment nine at 108 meters depth while Northern Fleet rescue vessels fumbled overhead for six days before Putin finally accepted Norwegian help on day seven when all 118 men were already dead. This meticulously researched account reveals how the Oscar-II class submarine—considered unsinkable with double-hulled steel designed for 600-meter depths—sank because crews received zero training on volatile HTP torpedoes that other navies had banned after British accidents, featuring survivor notes from Captain-Lieutenant Dmitry Kolesnikov written by feel in darkness describing 23 men breathing carbon dioxide while waiting for rescue, investigation findings exposing how six of ten torpedoes failed weld inspections but were loaded anyway during budget cuts, and evidence that the emergency rescue buoy was disabled in 1999 and never reactivated. Through salvage documentation revealing the AS-34 submersible damaged itself hitting Kursk's propeller while Norwegian divers were told the escape hatch valve turned counter-clockwise when it actually opened clockwise, testimony that Mikhail Rudnitsky crews heard SOS tapping but dismissed it as anchor chain noise, and autopsy reports confirming the final 23 died when a potassium superoxide rebreather cartridge exploded underwater consuming all oxygen in the compartment, this comprehensive narrative proves that national pride and cost-cutting killed everyone when Putin refused foreign rescue teams for six days while men wrote farewell letters 350 feet below the surface.

Sources:
► Norwegian Seismic Array (NORSAR). (2000). Seismic Event Detection Reports, August 12, 2000. Norwegian Ministry of Defense Archives.
► Government Commission of the Russian Federation. (2002). Report on the Sinking of the Nuclear Submarine Kursk. Moscow: Ministry of Defense.
► Moore, R. (2002). A Time to Die: The Untold Story of the Kursk Tragedy. Crown Publishers. ISBN: 978-1400047598
► Truscott, P. (2004). Kursk: Russia's Lost Pride. Simon & Schuster UK. ISBN: 978-0743467742
► Smit International & Mammoet. (2001). Kursk Salvage Operation Technical Documentation. Netherlands Maritime Archives.

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